At Weddings

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At Weddings
At Weddings.jpg
Studio album by
Tomberlin
ReleasedAugust 10, 2018 (2018-08-10)
Length43:21
Label Saddle Creek
Producer Owen Pallett
Tomberlin chronology
At Weddings
(2018)		Projections
(2020)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.9/10 [1]
Metacritic 82/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
The 405 8/10 [3]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Exclaim! 8/10 [5]
The Line of Best Fit 9.5/10 [6]
Loud and Quiet 7/10 [7]
Paste Magazine 8.5/10 [8]
Pitchfork 7.5/10 [9]
SputnikmusicStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [10]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Under the Radar 7/10 [12]

At Weddings is the debut studio album by American musician Tomberlin. It was released on August 10, 2018, under Saddle Creek Records.

Contents

Critical reception

At Weddings was met with "universal acclaim" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 82 based on 14 reviews. [2] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 80 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 17 reviews. [13]

Writing on behalf of AllMusic, Marcy Donelson said: "Tomberlin's brittle vocals are accompanied mainly by acoustic guitar with touches of keyboards and strings on an album that features performances by only the songwriter and producer Owen Pallett." [4] Chris Gee of Exclaim! explains how Tomberlin navigates her new release "with little more than guitar, keyboards and a reverberating soft power that meticulously frees herself from the burden of a defined path." [5] At The Line of Best Fit, Craig Howieson explains: "Guarded and beautifully measured, At Weddings has an absorbingly intimate quality. Lonesome reverberating guitars ricochet off the sparse percussion while tempered piano lines chime and assuage. Whether it be the swathes of white noise on "Tornado", the yowl of feedback on "Self-Help" or the rudimental piano line on sublime opener "Any Other Way" each embellishment hangs as if it were a carefully placed decoration. Above all of this Tomberlin's voice shines as the warm heart of the record." [6]

Accolades

PublicationAccoladeRankRef.
Stereogum Top 50 Albums of 2018
20
The Line of Best Fit Top 50 Albums of 2018
24

Tracklist

No.TitleLength
1."Any Other Way"3:22
2."Untitled 1"4:51
3."Tornado"3:36
4."You Are Here"3:44
5."A Video Game"5:12
6."I'm Not Scared"4:52
7."Seventeen"4:31
8."Self-Help"3:17
9."Untitled 2"4:36
10."February"5:20

Personnel

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  2. 1 2 "Metacritic Review". Metacritic . Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  3. ↑ Monroe, Jeremy (August 22, 2018). "Tomberlin sifts through life's more challenging moments, offering catharsis on At Weddings". The 405 . Archived from the original on August 22, 2018. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
  4. 1 2 Donelson, Macy. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic . Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  5. 1 2 Gee, Chris (August 8, 2018). "Exclaim! Review". Exclaim! . Retrieved November 8, 2020.
  6. 1 2 Howieson, Craig (July 26, 2018). "Tomberlin's At Weddings is a resoundingly beautiful debut". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved November 8, 2020.
  7. ↑ Gatward, Tristan (August 10, 2018). "Loud and Quiet Review". Loud and Quiet . Retrieved November 8, 2020.
  8. ↑ Manno, Lizzie (August 10, 2018). "Tomberline: At Weddings". Pastemagazine.com. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  9. ↑ Horn, Olivia (August 17, 2018). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved November 8, 2020.
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