"Moving east side of the west coast / Searching for home and goalposts / Not sure what we're running towards / Or even if were supposed to..."
The naked beauty and melancholy survivorship of "Goalposts" by Claymores, the project of enigmatic Denver Colorado singer-songwriter Michael Herrera, builds tension with sparse arrangements and a vocal countenance that feels both strong, accepting, self aware and maybe riddled with the stress bullets of our modern times. I thoroughly appreciate the take here that feels both raw but polished at the same time. The highly textured up front acoustic guitar propulsions, the vocal full of interweaving vocals and swell of synths that are displayed in nuanced gorgeous ways, the production feels so open and grounded that when you feel the electric guitar drop subtly in it feels wonderfully surprising and embracing.
Herrera shares that "Goalposts" is "directly inspired by artists such as Perfume Genius, Spoon, and Local Natives, this song belongs on playlists like Etherial, Levitate, and Essential Alternative."
In the end, "Goalposts" seems, to me, like a testament to the times, the difficult times especially for young people, for 20 something's who might wonder how the fuck they are going to survive the American way, a way that have become more unstable propagated by heads of state that seem to only care about their bottom line not ours. Corruption is the grift, we have voted for government shills and we are all the marks.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Denver, Colorado
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