TOMBERLIN
SHARES NEW SINGLE "HOURS"
NEW ALEX G CO-PRODUCED EP, PROJECTIONS
OUT OCTOBER 16TH VIA SADDLE CREEK
Photo Credit: Blake Stephens
"Poignant and compelling... She's let a few well-known collaborators into the mix and captured an even more complex mood."
-The New York Times
"Hypnotic... showcases her growing abilities as a writer."
-The FADER
-The FADER
"A brisk and minimal burst of energy from an artist best known for emotionally weighty slowburn catharsis."
-Stereogum
-Stereogum
"Emotionally perceptive... Contains the same melodic ease as her debut, resulting in similar waves of comfort."
-Paste
-Paste
"Her vocals gather like an impending gust of emotionality."
-MTV
-MTV
LISTEN TO "HOURS"
Tomberlin, the Los Angeles via Louisville, KY artist, has shared "Hours," the latest from her upcoming Projections EP. Projections, which was co-produced by Alex G (Alex Giannascoli) and bandmate Sam Acchione, continues the arc of her critically acclaimed 2018 debut, At Weddings. The rich vocal harmonies and guitar lines that made At Weddings so riveting still provide the EP's foundation, but new percussive backing and instrumental flourishes open the path forward for Tomberlin.
Of the song, Sarah Beth Tomberlin says: "'Hours' is a song ruminating on time spent with someone who makes time spent doing nothing together feel meaningful. So many love songs are like 'love me' or 'i love you', but writing this I wasn't sure what I was feeling or the other person's feelings. I have a tendency to feel the need to explain myself before I've even been asked to. I think this song is me trying to do that in my head instead of with that person prematurely, even though I sent this song to them directly after I wrote it."
Projections is available for pre-order now and due digitally October 16th via Saddle Creek, with a limited edition picture disc release to follow on November 13th. Saddle Creek pre-orders include an exclusive Risograph print with the album's lyrics.
WATCH THE PREVIOUSLY RELEASED
BUSY PHILIPPS-DIRECTED "WASTED" VIDEO
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What hides in the fog that keeps people apart, and what does it take to cut through it? These questions hang heavily over Sarah Beth Tomberlin's music, whose hushed and intimate tones orbit answers as much as they savor the unanswerable. To be in relation to another human being is to engage with a deep mystery: We are all fundamentally alone, siloed into confusing bodies, and yet occasionally we find someone who lets us feel as if we weren't. Tomberlin delights in articulating and amplifying that mystery, picking out its details and marveling at its scale. In singing her aloneness she soothes it, and extends a hand to others reckoning with their own solitude--a paradox that warms her spectral songs.
Tomberlin's new Projections EP weaves new collaborators and new techniques into her signature dusky milieu. Since her debut's release, Tomberlin has toured with Pedro the Lion, Andy Shauf, American Football, and Alex G, played a Tiny Desk concert for NPR, and given a riveting performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! The five-song EP, capped with a cover of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone's stunning "Natural Light," reflects this period of intensive growth and self-discovery. "I wrote these songs while getting to know myself outside of people's perceived notions of who I was," says Tomberlin. "I just started being like, What am I interested in? What do I want out of relationships and friendships? What am I looking for that I don't have in myself already?"
After touring the US with Alex G and playing new songs for the band in their shared green room, Tomberlin reached out to Alex Giannascoli and bandmate Sam Acchione to produce the EP's four original tracks. She recorded her new songs in Giannascoli's Philadelphia apartment alonside Acchione and frequent collaborator Molly Germer. The fleshed out sound lends a sense of urgency to tracks like "Wasted," an uptempo romp across the kind of thorny relationship that withholds as much as it gives.
TOMBERLIN
PROJECTIONS
SADDLE CREEK
OCTOBER 16, 2020
1. Hours
2. Wasted
3. Floor
4. Sin
5. Natural Light
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