Returning with the long-awaited follow-up to their 2023 single ‘Choir Song’, Her Picture are back with the announcement of their latest single ‘Can’t Think’. Bringing colourful grooves with relentless energy back to the limelight, the group are as intense as ever with their no-holds-barred approach to music-making.

Harmonic synthesis welcomes ‘Can’t Think’ to the limelight as its sharp, quick melodies take hold of the soundwaves. Blending together alternative rock with a healthy pop sentiment, the single holds itself as a euphoric creative anthem. Lashing out with pummeling drums and a colourful wall of sound, the track sports a subtle foreboding backbone with its suggestive dark-pop flavours.

Commenting on the track, the band explain, “Can’t Think, in simple terms, is about the fear of being known and seen. Particularly, the track explores the mortifying experience of being perceived when you’re not at your best and wanting to hide from the judgement of others. As a creative, there’s extreme pressure to keep adapting yourself and keep climbing that achievement ladder but sometimes that can’t be sustained because of what’s going on in your personal life. I think that’s where the central conflict of the song comes from; how do I make a career out of being spectated when I’m terrified of how others perceive me, and the control I need to give up to allow that relationship between artist and audience to develop myself.

I was also reading a lot of body horror work at the time, particularly Jenny Hval, and that inspired the lyricism in Can’t Think. The idea of rotting away to evade being seen is a big image used, which is sort of playfully in conversation with contemporary Gen Z humour around “rotting in my room”, but it’s also a means to regain control of the body, self-effacing on your own terms before anyone else can erase the idea of you”