Claude says:The South African-born, Colorado-based songwriter blends folk with orchestral ambition — by the time he made this 2018 record, he'd already backed his catalog with the Colorado Symphony and built a reputation for lyrics that sink in slowly. Evening Machines is patient, guitar-and-banjo grounded, the kind of album that rewards repeated listens more than it demands them. You didn't catch it until seven years after release, a pair of listless plays in 2022 and 2023 before it finally clicked in late 2025, when "San Luis" and "Dark, Dark, Dark" became fixtures for a few months.