Clever Girls' post punk wreckage in the evocative "Spark" will illicit multiple listens

AP Track Review

Clever Girls' narratively dense Spark has a lot of imagery cast in the chunky guitars that give way to sliding pearls that hang in the air as Diane Jean reflects sadly on what feels like familial, relationship wreckage and if "sparks" are hope or ideas, how they are lost or gained or snuffed out. It may take many listens to ferret out the story or your own story that you lay over this evocative song. It stands on it's own as a beautiful and sad jagged post punk track full of personal mysteries. 

"and if you burn the house down I'm the gasoline it's douse in"

 "and if you burn the house down I'm the match that you have in your pocket..."

Spark is about managing expectations and about acknowledging fault in a situation. It is also about desperately wanting to be able to re-evaluate a situation that is long gone, like experiencing some sort of guilt ridden deja-vu.

Clever Girls' post punk wreckage in the evocative "Spark" will illicit multiple listens. The band hails from Burlington, Vermont and are Diane Jean (vox, guitar), Winfield Holt (guitar), Tobias Sullivan (bass) and Robert Slater (drums).

-Robb Donker Curtius


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Diane Jean’s quirky outlook buoys the band’s writing, while Rob Slater, Tobias Sullivan and Winfield Holt deftly create everything from diverse percussive palettes to guitar infectious melodies. Together, the group creates hard-hitting, emotional pop- never slipping into diaristic monotony.   Above all, Clever Girls as a group will elicit the same emotion and nostalgia that Diane Jean seeks to find in their day job; the music will live somewhere between straight forward rock and roll of bygone eras and dusty, moth eaten grunge pop.