“Shame” feels inevitable. There was little doubt that Lauren Mayberry, the effortlessly charismatic lead singer of the Scottish band Chvrches, would someday venture out with solo material, and there was also no reason to expect that the sound of that music released under her own name would be wildly apart from what she helped created in her main gig. A death metal track from Mayberry would certainly be attention-getting, but who needs that when she’s clearly got a gift for making synth-pop songs that shimmer brightly while smuggling through barbs in the lyrics.

On “Shame,” Mayberry’s second solo single, all the elements are in place, tidy as nested boxes. She might be the only current performer who can make lyrics such as “Tell me sweet things/ Just enough to make me beg/ I’ll learn to like it/ Or at least that’s what you said” come across as oddly triumphant. In her rendering, the forceful stating of those lines — the acknowledgement of miserable truths — is where the power lies. Go ahead and dance the pain away.

Mayberry hasn’t announced a full-length debut yet, but it must be coming. And “Shame” suggests it’ll be ferocious.