Description:
(2020) Tomberlin - Projections EP
Review:
Sarah Beth Tomberlin wrote hushed, trembling songs about leaving behind faith while working 45 hours a week at a Verizon store and living with her parents in rural Illinois; now, sheâs been on Kimmel. She quarantined with Busy Phillips. She toured with the revered indie-rock singer-songwriter Alex G, then asked him to co-produce her new project, Projections, which she recorded in his Philadelphia apartment. Itâs not quite fame that Tomberlinâs reached, but Projections arrives at a point where she has more exposure than before, when the stakes are higher. This EP feels like a gift: a package of intricate, mesmerizing tracks, so intimate they sound like secrets. Like her debut At Weddings, the EP finds Tomberlin struggling with abandoning the Baptist church she grew up in. The most striking song from her past album showed her accepting that hurt was inevitable, that she wanted to stop fearing what she couldnât control â âTo be a woman is to be in pain,â she sang. Tomberlin is often a blunt writer, and Projections is very clear in its premise: she tries to reconcile queerness with her religious past, and to navigate relationships around a sense of impending loss. âItâs all sacrifice and violence/The history of love,â she coos on the opening track, âHours.â âBut remember when we stayed up/And took turns playing songs?â That mix of profundity â or attempted profundity â with the sweet, banal details of new love is woven throughout the project, and varies in its effectiveness. âWhen you go you take the sun/And all my flowers die,â she intones awkwardly on âSin,â redeeming the melodrama with the cutting simplicity of the next line: âSo I wait by the window and write some  and hope that you reply.â Projections gleams when it zooms in like that, unraveling Tomberlinâs internal monologue. She overthinks through much of these songs. Every rush of an instinct must be processed; every lurch towards love, examined. âThe night you asked me to hold your keys/ I felt like you wanted me to leave,â she breathes at the start of âFloor.â She watches her lover sleep as the song continues, but canât allow herself to enjoy the private comfort of the moment: âI felt the quiet/I tried to try it,â she sings, âBut my mind was always running crazy loud.â She juxtaposes every passing tenderness with the religious condemnation sheâs internalized. âI never felt ashamed in your embrace,â she sings on âHours,â and you understand the negative space around that statement. The production helps convey that sense that something sinister is looming, tangled in the background of every intimacy. Alex Gâs hallmarks are here: the fuzz that swaddles each song, bandmate Molly Germerâs steady, loping violin. Each track is so richly textured that it blossoms beyondâor despiteâTomberlinâs stark writing. There is always a string plucked somewhere in the background, a bass wriggling under a chorus. Percussive flourishes help telegraph the triumph in the EPâs most upbeat momentsââI donât mind sinning if itâs with you,â Tomberlin sings, and the ricochet of a drum pattern underscores the accomplishment in that statement. âWastedâ is a soundtrack for mutely punching a fist above your head when your phone glows with a text back from a crush. There are only five songs on the EP, one of which is a cover of the lo-fi rock band Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. Maybe because of that brevity, Projections offers fewer conclusions than at At Weddings. These tracks cut off just as Tomberlinâs decided sheâll try: to show a lover that sheâs stronger now, to not require affirmations of affection. âI just wanna be clean,â she moans, six times in a row at the end of âSin,â and we donât learn whether sheâs found that through her relationships, or if sheâs rejected the yearning for purity altogether. But thatâs the beauty in these songs, and the growth that gives them momentum â the shards of clarity that come just with accepting love, the power that comes with naming it.
Tracklist:
01 - Hours
02 - Wasted
03 - Floor
04 - Sin
05 - Natural Light
Media Report:
Genre: indie-folk
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits |
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