Push it from troubled minds
Tempted by evil eyes
Surrender, kiss goodbye
Tempted by evil eyes
A cold-glow confession. That’s how Surrender unfolds: a slow ignition of steel and skin, where rhythm strikes like a distant engine and the voice coils close, almost whispering its secrets into your collar. London’s Claudia Kane opens the doors to Villainess, her new label imprint, with a debut single that sways between club invocation and private séance.
Written, produced, and performed by Kane, Surrender is a mechanical bloom: percussion clanging like scaffolding in the rain, synths humming with the electricity of a city that never sleeps, and vocals carrying the intimacy of a half-lit room. It’s a track that holds tension like breath, offering release only in sudden flashes.
“I start with a scene in my head and create textures and lyrics that feel close, unsettling and haunted by something unsaid,” she explains, and you can hear that in the way every phrase feels like it’s watching you back.
Director Joseph Icaro extends this sensation with a visual steeped in brutalist futurism and gothic minimalism. Leather, chrome, and chiaroscuro light turn the frame into a chamber of self-confrontation. Kane’s movement is jagged yet poised, as if drawing invisible patterns in the air; beautiful and unnerving in equal measure. The video feels like a locked-room drama between body and mind, projected against the pulse of electronic machinery. There’s a sense of ritual here — the kind you conduct alone, when no one is supposed to be watching, yet every move feels like a performance.
“Surrender is a futuristically stylised meditation on self-surveillance, fate, and the struggle against internal cycles,” says Icaro. “It explores our reluctance to admit truth… suggesting that real freedom begins not when we escape the gaze, but when we finally confront it.”
Watch the video for “Surrender’ below:
Kane’s multidisciplinary world-building threads her music directly into the pulse of London’s underground queer nightlife. Her voice can shrink to a breath or expand into a command, shifting effortlessly between close-quarters confession and something near ritual invocation. Surrender feels like a still from an unmade film; a secret lit from within. The club becomes a confessional booth; the lens, a mirror. And the song becomes that rare thing: the truth you didn’t know you were ready to tell.
A producer, songwriter, vocalist, and DJ, Claudia Kane works where cinematic electronics meet visual storytelling and conceptual design. Her music pairs sculptural sound with lyrics that move between the diaristic and the surreal. Rooted in London’s nightlife, she has appeared at Slimelight, Tate Modern, Monster Queen, Dalston Superstore, and Darkroom. She is the founder of Villainess, a record label and creative platform dedicated to bold, concept-led electronic music and cross-disciplinary collaborations.
In parallel, she lends her voice and words to Metallic Lover, a synth-pop collaboration steeped in retrofuturist glamour, romantic detachment, and electro-experimentalism. Always, she begins with a visual, a moment, a space …and builds the music to inhabit it.
Listen to Surrender below and order the single here.
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