Claw Machine by Smashy Claw

Claw Machine was an enormous audio/visual project we undertook in 2016. By that I mean we consistently posted a brand new song and music video every Tuesday for all 52 weeks of the year.

I graduated with my Bachelor's degree from CU in fall 2015. I realized somewhere along the way that college, especially a Recording Arts degree, was not going to provide the job security that a naïve 18-year-old me may have hoped for. So with expensive piece of paper in-hand, I pondered what I was supposed to be doing with my life. I guess the answer was this giant creative undertaking.

We sunk tons of money into it, lost lots of sleep, and were generally miserable. Sort of an all-or-nothing approach to gaining some traction as a band. But it was all worth it, right? NOPE. At the end of the year we probably had fewer fans than we started out with, if YouTube comments are any indicator. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

I was so exhausted and dejected by the end that there was a brief period in 2017 that I considered finding some other creative pursuit to follow. Alas, the siren song for song siring is not so easily shaken.

Many of the tracks ended up on Insane is Repeating, Demons in the Undertow, or the two holiday EPs, but here lies the remainder, half-baked concepts and rushed mixes and all.

2011 - 2018

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