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Most PinkPantheress songs are over before they’ve had a chance to really begin, averaging around two minutes in length and forging a craving for more. But heading into her long-awaited debut album Heaven Knows, out Nov. 10, the singer and songwriter is lingering for a little while longer. The record’s latest single, “Capable of Love,” comes in at just under four minutes — and she makes every second count.
In the greyscale music video for the single, directed by Aidan Zamiri, PinkPantheress strolls through a countryside field with a suitcase,” singing: There, she finds a gaping hole in the ground and uses it as a means of release, dropping an old cell phone, handwritten letters, and left behind belongings into the darkness.
“And I think I need a picture ’cause it’s never enough/To see you smilin’ in my mind when I lay still in the dark/It starts with you,” she sings, tossing in dynamite, a microwave, and a wardrobes worth of clothes. “I’m obsessed with the idea that one day it breaks up/’Cause after that, I know I’ll never be as capable of love.”
Then, PinkPantheress attaches one part of a sheet to a stake in the ground and the other to her waist before sitting on the edge of the opening and jumping in. It’s not quite wonderland, but the portal moves her through space and time before spitting her out in a hallway. At the end of the walkway is a door that reads: Heaven Knows.
“What an intense insane moment ! my first album is coming out and you know i love a pun so it’s called ‘heaven knows,’ out on November 10th,” PinkPantheress wrote on Instagram. “This album is an accumulation of music I’ve made over the last two years, with some beloved tunes that might sound familiar and some cutie features that I can’t wait to announce.”
“Capable of Love” falls under the familiar tag, but when she first teased the record on Instagram in 2021, it seemed as though it would be another under-two-minute entry in her growing catalog. Two years later, PinkPantheress is showing that she’s also capable of expanding.
