The Criticals

One Liner:  Strokesian, loose, enjoyable rock and roll

Wikipedia Genre:  No Wikipedia - rock and roll

Home: Nashville

Poster Position: 22
Weekend One Only.
Saturday at 12:40 (ouch).

Honda Stage.

Thoughts:  Love to hear a Nashville band that has nothing to do with country music.  These guys are doing some Strokes-ian rock and roll action and it is pleasing to my ears.  Not much written about them, but it is two guys who apparently played in other bands in Nashville in their teens and then came together to give this action a shot.

Their first EP has a gross sounding name to me - feels like a douche name - Mimosa Hygiene, released in 2019.  But, it has their top streamer on it, so I guess people are okay with douching with Mimosa Hygiene.  "Treat Ya Better" has 4 million streams.

A little disco flavor in there.  Gives off a Rolling Stones vibe to me.  After that EP, Sour Grapes was released in 2020 but got little to no traction.  The 2022 EP Habits to Break got a little more action, with one of their only other tunes with more than a million streams.  "Absinthe"

Is there like a certain microphone that the Strokes used that everyone else now uses to make their voice sound that way?  Either way, I kinda dig the vibe here.  Not breaking any ground with these songs, but I've been playing them pretty much all day and enjoying it.  I'd go check it out.