Gentle, beautiful fragility and vulnerability abounds in this second album by the Brooklyn singer-songwriter Sarah Beth Tomberlin, who sings about insecurity, isolation and relationships with great tenderness with minimal instrumentation. These are themes even more starkly explored on her 2018 debut LP At Weddings and the 2020 EP Projections, and the shadow of lockdown looms over this LP, even though there’s also a sense of release as her voice opens out on the tracks Sunstruck, and Stoned. Opener Easy creeps insecurely and slowly out into the lights, percussively beautiful song Tap is all about isolation, watching daytime TV and shallow online conversation: “Talk to strangers like we already met/Even though it hasn’t happened yet. Other standouts include the Unsaid with gentle woodwind, Memory, and Born Again Runner, where there’s further caution and disassociation. Happy Accident breaks into louder guitar territory to express the state of mulling and wrestling with uncertain feelings over a potential relationship, Collect Caller takes a drily humorous aim at some indie types, “a white boy living on your daddy’s dime”, and closing track IDKWNTHT is a gorgeously warm acoustic guitar number. An album full of subtlety and all aswirl with many emotions and rich nuance. Out on Saddle Creek Records.
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