Adore are garage punk pop from Galway, Donegal and Dublin.
So far, it’s been a fine run of singles with the grungey debut single ‘Postcards’, and the catchy ‘Supermum!’ from Lara Minchin (guitar, vocals), Lachlann Ó Fionnáin (bass, vocals) and Naoise Jordan Cavanagh (drums) who make up Adore.
Today, single #3 dropped with ‘Can We Talk’ a buzzed and fuzzed garage rock track which never loses sight of its melodic force, and was produced by Daniel Fox (Gilla Band).
The song is about “cyclical patterns of abuse”.
Sometimes I think you want me dead
I’d be left in the hollows, where I’d been leadI’d be remembered just as you wished
As a professional griever, forever in bliss
“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.”
Lara Minchin, Adore.
The band support Sprints in the UK and have play their Dublin headline show at Whelan’s on 8th December.
ADORE LIVE
November
28 – SWG3, Glasgow (supporting Sprints)
29 – New Century Hall, Manchester (supporting Sprints)
30 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham (supporting Sprints)
December
06 – Mandela, Belfast (supporting Pillow Queens)
08 – Whelan’s, Dublin (Headline show)
January
03 – Pizza Pizza Records Night in Toales, Dundalk
February
22 – Borderline Fest – Workman’s Club, Dublin
Follow Adore
Instagram: @adorethebandofficial
X/Twitter: @Adore_Galway
YouTube: @Adore_band
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Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
