Name: i don't know who needs to hear this..
Brand: Tomberlin

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LBJ277LPC

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Colour

white

Colour details

Cloudy Clear and Black Splats

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Discogs ID

[r23495432]

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-06-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0648401027730

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes / Signed copies: No / white

LBJ277LPX

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orange

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

LP++

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2022-04-29

0648401027778

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / orange

LBJ277LP

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black

Extended format: No

0648401027716

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Tomberlin

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Saddle Creek

Exclusive

Tomberlin is Sarah Beth Tomberlin, a pastor’s kid born in Florida, raised in rural Illinois. She wrote the majority of her debut, <i>At Weddings</i> (2018), while living at home. For a while after leaving home and church, she lived in Louisville, Kentucky. She worked a day job and kept writing songs. She posted some of these songs to Bandcamp, which led to her signing a record deal with Saddle Creek. It all happened fast: less than a year after her frst live show, she performed on Jimmy Kimmel and she ended up moving to L.A. 

During the pandemic, Sarah Beth was all over the place, physically and mentally. Louisville. Los Angeles. Back home in Illinois for a bit. Brooklyn, where she’s now settled, she says and is where her new album <i>i don’t know who needs to hear this…</i> was recorded with producer and engineer Phil Weinrobe (who played a variety of instruments on the collection), and later mastered by Josh Bonati, also in Brooklyn. 

“The theme of the record,” she explains, “is to examine, hold space, make an altar for the feelings.” Hold space: Tomberlin’s songs do it literally, making it heard space. Her full-length debut, At Weddings, was widely praised for the sparsity and delicacy of its instrumentation, especially in contrast with the emotional heft of her lyrics. Here, the space feels larger and holier, built to echo. Pedal steel. Old acoustic guitars, freshly plucked. A drifting synthesizer. Chill, brushy percussion. Ambient, expansive clarinet and saxophone. Aleatory piano trills, a lot of piddling with the occasional splash. The looseness and wideness of the arrangements conveys a tender regard for their parts, as though each arpeggio, loop, scratch is a found shell or feather in the hand. Then there is the instrument of her voice, which has the endearing quality of being perfectly tuned but reluctantly played. “I’m not a singer,” she sings on “idkwntht.” “I’m just someone who’s guilty.