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Aug 17, 2018Guarded and beautifully measured, At Weddings has an absorbingly intimate quality.
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Aug 17, 2018It’s an album utterly relatable because love, and heartbreak, are universal. It’s also something so amazingly personal that no one could precisely duplicate it, because every experience is specific to Tomberlin’s journey. That’s At Weddings: passion, devastation, depression , and strength rolled into one. It’s tenacious, and it’s beautiful.
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Aug 17, 2018At Weddings is filled with such a powerful, saintly aura that even the most ugly subject matters can spur flawless, beautiful results.
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Aug 22, 2018At Weddings doesn't allow itself to wallow. If anything, it's Tomberlin sharing with us her own form of catharsis, a collection of intimate and powerful songs that sift through life's more disappointing and challenging moments to find the beauty we sometimes overlook.
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MojoAug 17, 2018At Weddings quickly coalesces into an utterly compelling presence. [Sep 2018, p.88]
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Q MagazineAug 17, 2018These are fine-boned tracks, filled with lops, piano, surges of sound and Tomberlin's hazy voice. But they are carried on the shoulders of great melody, so the effect is of gloriously distorted pop--warm, somnolent, slightly out of focus. [Sep 2018, p.118]
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UncutAug 17, 2018Whatever its emotional well-spring, her expression is clear, purposeful and strong in its directness. [Sep 2018, p.38]
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Aug 17, 2018Her tranquilizing balance of wandering purity and unconvincing bravery is intimately grasped and yet confronted with anxiety and disbelief that decorates her daydream-like prose in conflicting ways.
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Aug 17, 2018Truly, a remarkable debut.
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Aug 17, 2018There are traces of White Chalk-era PJ Harvey, Low and Sufjan Stevens here and there, but At Weddings introduces a new and singular talent.
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Aug 17, 2018At Weddings shows Tomberlin tapping into a tentative inner strength, creating a soothing record that ends up resisting its self-doubts and reaches out its hand.
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Aug 17, 2018At Weddings remains remarkable for its grace, candor, and composure. For now, with or without religion, Tomberlin seems equipped to keep her demons at bay.
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Dec 4, 2018While simple and often musically somnolent, its heart-wrenching effect is ultimately hard to shake.
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Nov 13, 2018Tomberlin's use of one phrase to build the songs from is particularly powerful because of how it musically mirrors the process of introspection and the location of one memory or instance to probe for revealing insights. She chronicles her loss of faith with a bittersweet melancholy that finds self-awareness to be its own form of enlightenment. Like the ethereal light of the early morning, she rises.
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Jul 25, 2020
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Mar 2, 2019Utter garbage stop giving this high ratings please. Of course its better than 808's but it should be nowhere near a 9/10 rating
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Feb 20, 2019