Fresh from being announced in the first wave of acts appearing at Borderline festival in February, Galway’s Adore have returned with their third single ‘Can We Talk’ produced by Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox.

Never ones to shy away from difficult subject matter ‘Can We Talk’ sees singer/guitarist Lara Minchin examining cyclical patterns of abuse.

“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,” explains Minchin noting.

“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.”

Adore join Sprints on tour in the UK later this month before opening for Pillow Queens in Belfast (Dec 6th) and headlining their own show in Whelan’s in Dublin on December 8th. Tickets €15.45 on sale here