Adore would like a word. It’s best we just listen.
The rising Irish trio continue a striking new blast of energy from the Ould Sod with “Can We Talk,” a buzzing dose of melodic garage punk that hits the streams with a reckless fervor this morning (November 13). Adore are set to hit the road across the United Kingdom with countryfolx Sprints later this month, and the rival masses should take very well to this blistering new jam.
Produced by Gilla Band bassist Daniel Fox, “Can We Talk” is described as a cross-examination of cyclical patterns of abuse, and follows punchy September call-to-action anthem “Supermum!,” which brazenly took us back to the halcyon hype era of Cool Britannia’s ’90s heyday.
“‘Can We Talk’ revolves around a pattern of abuse where one is picked up when broken, broken down even farther and is moulded into something subservient, meek and willing to please,” says vocalist Lara Minchin. “There is an awareness that one doesn’t get into these situations from a good start. In my experience there has been something unhealed in me that has made me lean into control in the past. It begins with not being allowed to disagree with small things, until dangerous patterns of behaviour come to the front and you are so beaten down and made to feel so worthless that you feel like there is no conceivable way you can leave.”
Fuck it, we’ll just let Minchin take it home from here: “It’s sort of like a horror film, where the threat is always there; it presents with small poltergeist acts, a glass is smashed, the dog keeps barking at seemingly nothing, until the force gains more and more power as it feeds from your livelihood. It’s only when it gets genuinely frightening that you realise that the threat has always been there.”
Crank this up.