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Though its songs range from intimate reflections to literary explorations, the album as a whole presents a melancholy look at life – though as every track somehow reminds us, mostly through musical expression, the sun will still rise and there shall come a brighter day. I’m always looking to expand and head into new territory.” I guess what I’m trying to say is that in the moment, yes, it feels like the true vision, but that changes. Creating it, practicing it, performing it. Even before the songs are brought into the studio you already spent so much time with it. Everyone that records music knows that by the end of a session, you’re pretty numb to the music. It is something I am still working on, searching for, learning about- even after 6 albums. “I still don’t think I have recorded an album that has captured my vision or artistry yet,” he adds. I guess COVID was the only bump in the road, and we made it through that too!” It’s common to run into problems while recording, whether sonically or economically. “John Cage said that coming out of a project with something exactly how you envisioned it produces something robotic, but we were able to avoid that with this album, I think. I like to see what happens, see what flows through everyone in the moment, kind of a Miles Davis approach, but I think we set out to do exactly what we wanted to with this record,” Gebauer says. “I usually go into the studio with little idea of what I want it to be.

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Such is also the case with Catch Prichard’s music, where Gebauer’s especially raw performance (we can “thank” COVID-19 for that) is bolstered by the seductive swells and soaring falls of a full band’s colorful, multi-textured might. Previously featured on Atwood Magazine for their haunting 2016 single “Hometown” – taken off their debut EP, Eskota – Catch Prichard’s music is somewhat comparable to that of Manchester indie pop band The Slow Show, whose baritone vocalist Rob Goodwin captivates as much through booms and croons, as he does fleeting whispers and massive, drawn-out emotional overhauls. Luckily no one else in the session got it! But I was feeling pretty shitty for about three weeks. We debated if I should re-record the vocals, but I felt that the album was a part of the time now, relevant, a piece of what everyone was going through. It’s a piece of history, and a product given by the means of the world.” Catch Prichard © Rochelle Arucan It wasn’t until the symptoms were more open to the public that I realized. I wasn’t feeling right the whole week, couldn’t sing well, and was tired throughout the whole recording session.

“I also did not know I had COVID while making this album. “I remember eating at a pizza place with the guys after the last session and watching the news on the flatscreen of what was to come. “My albums don’t usually take this long to release, but our final day of recording was the beginning of March 2020, when the world went into lockdown due to COVID-19,” Gebauer tells Atwood Magazine. The Oakland, California band of Gebauer, Travis Snyder (pedal steel), Chris Clayman (bass), and Tim Decillis (drums) recorded the LP at the top of last year, finishing their sessions just as the COVID-19 pandemic was locking the world down. Independently released April 23, 2021, I Still Miss Theresa Benoit arrives this spring as Catch Prichard’s first full-length album – an elegant and emotionally sweeping nine-track collection ready to immerse listeners’ ears and hearts in wellspring of resonant feeling. I Still Miss Theresa Benoit – Catch Prichard With Sawyer Gebauer’s deep baritone vocals leading our way through the dark, Catch Prichard light a bittersweet, yet hopeful spark we can carry with us into an endless array of tomorrows. Cinematic and tender, beautifully poetic and stirringly expressive, I Still Miss Theresa Benoit is a slow-burning journey through past and present, individuality and community a reckoning with the times, our perception of history, culture, progress, and more. Poignant, raw, and moving, Catch Prichard’s debut full-length album is an intimate and expansive record of the times.

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