Watch Kandle's James Bond-Inspired Video For 'Lock & Load'

Canadian singer/songwriter Kandle Osborne dropped her her first independent release this summer, the Stick Around and Find Out EP, produced with Martin “Youth” Glover (Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, The Verve), Liam O’Neil (Kings of Leon), and Warne Livesey (Midnight Oil, Matthew Goode).

Now she has returned with new single, “Lock & Load” off her forthcoming album coming in early 2021. Inspired by growing up watching classic James Bond films with her father (Canadian rocker  Neil Osborne of 54-40), the accompanying video was designed to be “the greatest spy movie never made”.

Recorded in Vancouver’s Hipposonic Studios with British producer Michael Rendall, “Lock & Load”, along with the rest of the new album, was completed while under lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Tracking for the new music began on March 7th 2020.

Kandle shares:

“I already had most of the songs written when I asked Michael to produce the album. I wasn’t sure what my plan was, having just freed myself of all contracts. All I knew was that I needed to keep making music. We first met in the studio together in London (recording ‘Spell’ with legendary rock producer, Youth, who Michael engineers for) and became instant friends. I asked Michael if he wanted to try and write a Bond theme song and we wrote ‘Lock & Load’ in about 15 minutes sending voice notes back and forth, getting giddy and excited!

The actual recording process was magical. We approached it with a very old-school 60s mindset, capturing the band in the room with plenty of spill and imperfection. Lots of first takes and not too many overdubs.”

Director Brandon William Fletcher explains:

“Your typical Bond title sequence will tease locations, themes, and plot points from the story. It was important to feel like there was a bigger story at play here, so I actually roughed out a whole film plot and character backgrounds to try and influence the visuals. We also have a lot of homages to previous title sequences. Like, a lot of them. We didn’t have two hours to tell a story so relying on the visual short-hand established in previous Bond films helped give the sense of a larger world.”