Front Door Confrontations Cassette EP

Limited Edition Red Cassette EP Nashville rock duo The Criticals (Parker Forbes and Cole Shugart) announce their debut EP for Fantasy Records titled Front Door Confrontations. To mark the occasion, they’ve shared the first single, “Clever Girl.”The Criticals on “Clever Girl” "We really wanted an upbeat, straight forward song to finish out this EP- one to tie all the others together. “Clever Girl” started after having a dance party of all the new tunes we were really digging. Lyrically I felt like I had been writing the same stuff over and over again recently, so I just decided to go off of a personal encounter I had eves-dropping on a couple at a bar a few nights before we started writing the song. We started “Clever Girl” with a desire for a robotic dance song, after a lull of only writing ballads and mid-tempo grooves. We were listening to The Bravery a lot at that time, so the repetitive downstroke nature of the guitars happened organically. Some songs just arrive and it's difficul