Premiere: Two Sheds, ‘It’s Okay’

Kevin Bronson on August 4th, 2014

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If the sublimely beautiful “It’s Okay,” the new song from Two Sheds, sounds like a song with a past, it’s probably for a good reason. The Sacramento-born band has been in hibernation for a while – it was back in 2006 that the band released its debut “Strange Ammunition,” with an EP the next year. What started as a collaboration between Caitlin Gutenberger and her husband Johnny (who played in Far) went on hiatus after a couple years of touring when Caitlin joined Zach Rogue (of Rogue Wave) in his project Release the Sunbird. In 2012, the Gutenbergers moved to L.A., and Caitlin, responding to a challenge from a friend to write 20 songs in one day, authored enough material that Two Sheds was rebooted, with Josh Barnhart (Port O’Brien) drumming. Two Sheds’ forthcoming album “Assembling” (release date TBA), a collage of folk-tinged indie, soulful pop and ambient rock, came together in Elliott Smith’s old room, New Monkey Studios in Van Nuys, with Eli Thomson (Everest, Delta Spirit, Richard Swift and Ivan & Alyosha) engineering. At the fore is Gutenberg’s plaintive vocal style, particularly soothing on the first single, which she says is about “trying to do art for a living” while being married. “Even when things aren’t going as well as we would like,” she says, “I think one of the things that keeps us going is knowing that, no matter what, we have each other, and things will work themselves out.”

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