Buzzy Irish trio Adore today release new single ‘Can We Talk’ – an enraged blast of melodic garage-punk, swiftly following the release of their explosive call to action ‘Supermum!’ back in September.

Produced by Gilla Band bassist Daniel Fox, new single ‘Can We Talk’ is a screeching cross-examination of cyclical patterns of abuse. Vocalist Lara Minchin’s lyrics are incensed, delivered at times with a wry humour “I love that I can see the rage / Why try to hide it, love?”, but at its core, Adore are demanding, crying out for change.

Speaking more on the song’s inspiration, Lara Minchin said: “‘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. 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.

“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.”