The track Maybe you’re right is a smoldering, churning, escalating ode to running away from your problems.
The track balances ecstasy and catastrophe, with Kirini’s deadpan lyrics and deceptively sweet vocals anchored by Steadman’s idiosyncratic analog percussion. Maybe you’re right is the second single off of Kritters’ upcoming EP, It’s a Trap, which ruminates on self-imposed isolation: fitting material for the lockdown conditions under which it was written in spring 2020. It’s a Trap is about the constraints we accept in order to survive: the useful lies we tell, the faltering friendships we tend, and the many ways in which we opt to shrink our lives simply because the world is a lot less scary if you make it really, really small. Written about her post-university life in the small city of Oxford, U.K., songwriter and lead vocalist Kirini O.K.’s songs grapple with the private torment of maintaining the pretense of happiness, and how threats lurk in all corners when one's happiness is fragile: even blue skies might be a trap. In the claustrophobic world of It’s a Trap, escape is hard to contemplate and even harder to achieve; to survive here is to dwell in escapist fantasies, to drive without destination and assiduously avoid.
Kirini's art and writing background shapes the band’s aesthetic, both sonic and visual. Rob's engineering and production style borrows techniques learned from his years in recording studios watching producers like George Shilling (Yazz, Primal Scream) and Gill Norton (Patti Smith, Pixies, Foo Fighters). Kritters work out of their home studio in the Bronx, with just a Shure SM57 and 58, a set of CAD drum mics, a Tascam US16x08 interface, and a Mac running Logic. For Maybe you’re right, Steadman recorded analog sounds of household objects, the full list of which includes: paper rip, paper squash, Aldi tote bag squash, book page flips, match strikes, lighter strikes, shaker, tambourine, a mug tapped with a metal spoon, and stick clicks.
lyrics
I doubt that you could like me
I hardly like myself
I doubt that you could like me
I hardly like myself
I know you’re right
maybe you’re right
and it’s not too late to try
I know you’re right
maybe you’re right
and it’s not too late to try
I doubt that you could like me
I hardly like myself
but I’m thinking you’re alright
I doubt that you could like me
I hardly like myself
but I’m thinking you’re alright
I know you’re right
maybe you’re right
and it’s not too late to try
I know you’re right
maybe you’re right
and it’s not too late to try
so let’s fly
let’s sell all this shit and let’s kiss kiss it all goodbye
the money’s no good but we’ll make it last a while
get up up and go before we can change our minds
let’s fly
let’s fly
so let’s fly
let’s tell all our friends and let’s kiss kiss them all goodbye
get up up and go before we can change our minds
if we leave right now we can maybe escape our lives
let’s fly
let’s fly
credits
from It's a Trap,
released September 15, 2021
Written, arranged, and recorded by Kritters.
Kritters are Kirini O. K. & Rob Steadman
Lyrics and songwriting - Kirini O. K.
Songwriting, engineering, and production - Rob Steadman
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