Video premiere: Two Sheds, ‘Come Home’

Kevin Bronson on August 9th, 2016

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Imagination is such a precious commodity — where some people see ordinary objects, visual artists see shapes, texture and colors that can be assembled to convey larger ideas. In making the video for their slow-core anthem “Come Home,” L.A. indie rock sophisticates Two Sheds found such a collaborator in director/animator Amber Padgett of Heavy Sweater Productions. It’s more than a happy coincidence that the song comes from Two Sheds’ 2015 “Assembling.”

The stop-motion video is an assemblage of 2,515 images — bringing the objects to life like some kind of Busby Berkeley dream. Padgett, the band says, “was inspired to make it after visiting a surplus electronics store in the Valley, when she spotted some some clay and wire resistors mingling on the dirt floor, looking like insects. Those resistors, combined with some vintage amp tubes, fishing line, flashlights, dimmer switches, sparklers, a light box from a chiropractor’s office and a precocious kitten (sadly not featured in video), helped to make the end result.”

The song, says Two Sheds’ Caitlin Gutenberger, “is about loneliness and longing — searching around in the void for someone you know isn’t coming back, and maybe was never really there to begin with.”

One thing for sure: You’ll never look at the contents of your junk drawer in the same way.

||| Watch: The video for “Coming Home”