A hissing new single offering no antidote
We’ve been COUCOU CHLOE stans for a hot minute, and it’s always compelling to watch how her approach mutates. After pulling us in with the hallucinatory, head-spinning intensity of works like FEVER DREAM, her latest single feels like a much rawer offering, stripped back yet thudding, as if immersing us in a thickening cloud of smoke.
“VENOM” thrives on controlled unease: thumping, physical, and all about pressure rather than release. It pulls from post-punk and lo-fi digitalism, with a rhythmic, almost rap-adjacent attitude (propelled by visuals like CHLOE puffing out smoke against a city skyline background, which definitely hit an oddly specific nerve in our system). Etched into it all is her signature dissociated-yet-piercing delivery, flowing over digitally-scrunched production (entirely done by CHLOE, btw) — like a forgotten video game soundtrack where CHLOE is unmistakably the main character. Her venom doesn’t strike instantly; it presses, seeps, and lingers, until you realise you’re fully under its spell.
Words by Evita Shrestha
Images Courtesy of the Artist
