Ride contemplates the self-protective avoidance we do when we are in untenable situations: escapism, rather than escape. Ride is the lead 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.