‘Everybody’s Been There’: Sherwyn on ‘Spin City’ EP and Vulnerability

“Sometimes when you talk about relationship stuff and courting, it can be sad. But I was like, ‘Nah, that’s not, that’s not the vibe. It’s almost like defeat,” said Nashville-raised artist Sherwyn on his vulnerable new EP, Spin City.

The genre-bending singer and producer channeled uneasiness, hopefulness, tumult, passion, and heartbreak into a surprisingly upbeat six-song EP. Spin City’s warbling guitars and synthy tracks underscore the emotional through-line without being bogged down by the weight. Together with his twin brother, Kendo, as the lauded production duo Two Fresh, Sherwyn spent the better part of a year crafting the project, all while reconciling what could have been.

“We rented a house out in Monte Nido, just to get away from anything that could influence it. Just be stuck there for two weeks and kind of create. The one thing I knew going into it was I just wanted to write from where I’m at personally at the time,” he said.

Though that place may have been one of confusion and guarded feelings, Sherwyn fully embraced the challenge of sorting those feelings for the sake of art.

“I wanted to write and make the music, like feel the joy of having those feelings and going through, ‘Oh, does she like me? Or do I need to be cool?” he said.

In the process of shaping the album, one main theme stuck out for the multi-hyphenate.

“The big main throughline is the feeling of being spun,” he said. “The feeling of ‘I don’t know if this is for me or not’ or ‘I love it.’ It’s coming from a vulnerable place. And I was like, ‘I’m gonna call this place Spin City.’ I feel like everybody’s been there before.”

But amid that vulnerability, Sherwyn still approaches the relationship theme with optimism throughout. He homes in on that hopefulness immediately on the EP’s intro, “First to Blame,” singing “What’s the point, if it don’t feel like a f****** Friday?”

“It’s basically saying let’s make sure we feel hopeful and want to go through with every everything we’re doing, no matter what. If it’s like, you still not knowing if somebody likes you or whatever, or if you’re kind of down on yourself, because the ego is a big part of when you’re talking to somebody,” he said.

“But if it don’t feel like a Friday, if it doesn’t feel like, ‘Oh, I can’t wait to go and be with this person, to talk to this person or just to know more about the way somebody feels about you or the way I feel about them,’ I don’t want it. I want it to feel like it’s gonna be a great time no matter what, and that’s, that’s why I’m saying, ‘What’s the point?'”

Brothers In Beats

Spin City may be the tale of Sherwyn’s budding relationship and the unknown, but his co-producer and twin brother was there every step of the way. The brothers have a wealth of production credits under their belt as a duo, including artists like Duckwrth, Amber Mark and Gabriel Jacoby.

“The process for us is just to make something we like. We just create out of innocence and not knowing what the end goal is, not having a reference point. Because I think for us, we want it to always keep it fun. It has to feel like fun and not work,” Sherwyn said.

That ethos of always keeping it fun is a key factor in the brothers’ foray into music in the first place, “because we have each other, it was like, ‘this is great. I could do this forever,’” he said. “Obviously, it’s not like everything’s going to be perfect when you make it. And I think for us, we kind of dwell on those happy accidents. They kind of make the music better, and I think that’s why we share that.”

Working in a creative capacity with your sibling can be challenging for anyone, but for Two Fresh, their closeness allows for an enhanced level of collaboration, free from tiptoeing around the music.

“We know each other so well, I mean, obviously, you know we’re twins,” Sherwyn said. “We’ve been together since the start, we’re not afraid to say. We’re not afraid to be blunt, which also just helps in the creative process. It’s not like nobody’s holding anything back. We’re all really into it and really wanting to get the same thing out of it.”

The brotherly bond also means that collaboration comes second nature for Sherwyn.

“When we got in with Samara and with many of the other people that we work with, it’s a hang, we’re just having fun kicking it,” he said. “And if we make a song by the end of it, that’s great. If we just have a great relationship and a friendship, that’s great too.”

Fittingly, their musical perspective and references also can be traced to the beginning.

The unique sounds of Sherwyn and Two Fresh stem from the duo’s multicultural upbringing as the children of Bajan immigrants raised in Middle Tennessee.

“We had my pops always playing Al Green, but he’s also playing Soca and reggae, and Calypso,” Sherwyn said. “I also have two older brothers. At the time, MTV was booming, and I’m also looking up to them, so whatever they like, I’m trying to listen to. So, as I’m hearing the Soca and all that stuff in the house. I’m hearing like the Red-Hot Chili Peppers, I’m hearing Wu Tang, I’m hearing Three 6 Mafia. And I’m like, ‘I love all of this.’”

Drawing from those inspirations directly catalyzed the duo’s music as kids, leading them to take up instruments and learn Apple’s GarageBand for music production.

“We just wanted to blend all the stuff that we heard. At least, try to blend it, to make it into this one thing that is mine, ours, whatever, is like something that just feels fresh, feels like you haven’t heard it,” he said.

Spin City To The Big City

Over the summer, Sherwyn joined fellow multigenre artists Duckwrth and DE’WAYNE on the All-American Freakshow tour, taking his talents to the road after a handful of successful projects and singles like 2024’s “Infinity High” and its massively popular single “Fever” featuring Sariah Mae.

“This is the first time to go out and to hear like fans and the audience, know some of the words, but also kind of react to the music,” Sherwyn said. “It’s a beautiful thing to see people enjoying it, and I love to perform. So, no matter what, I’m up there because I’m as much as I make the music, I’m a fan of this music. I’m having a great time up there.”

Sherwyn will have plenty more chances to see the fans react as he gears up to hit the road with singer Amber Mark as a special guest on her “The Pretty Idea Tour” in early 2026. As for the song that Sherwyn enjoys performing the most?

“’Lizzy Lizzy’ is absolutely just fun. And I think, usually from all the shows from the Duck tour, by the end of the song, everybody already knows to just say ‘Life’s too short. I think it’s because it’s the truth. We all know life’s too short,” he said.

Embodying that fun disposition across the Spin City EP and enjoying the journey for what it is have been the major takeaways for Sherwyn.  

“That’s the one thing I’ve taken from tour,” he said. “The energy has got to be shown. And I think in the music, it’s already there too. So, let’s have fun.”

Though the tour may be a few months out and the EP is freshly released, Sherwyn is not content with resting on his laurels.

“We’re just gonna keep on the gas, keep trying to make these sounds,” he said.

Spin City is available to stream now.