Music

It feels like a modern take on the eternal missive: why do I love what’s bad for me?

The piano is left to speak through the muted overtones of a few simple chords, and cascades of arpeggio.

The images are lush and the voice is dusty, the guitar crackles like a campfire and the song builds from just an acoustic guitar into the layered swell of a full band.

With a syncopated intro on the muted electric guitar, we quickly get that deep kick drum to drop a la Imagine Dragons.

With a strong sense of melody and some poetry of everyday life, Harlequin Gold gives us a sense of what it feels like to be young right now.

This song approximates the throwaway sense of modern determinism as well any out there with smart lyrics and a very artistic sanctity of message.

This song captures perfectly the circular malaise of settling for the status quo.

The image and the persona that Shoemaker delivers is sumptuous, and the song shines as a stylistic reference to the casual, the throwaway, the kicked-back let’s-do-something-we-won’t-remember kind of restlessness.