Sarah-Beth Tomberlin's debut At Weddings was an instant delight and favourite as soon as I heard it on its release back in 2018. Tender and fragile songs with minimal instrumentation and production. The documentation of a difficult coming of age as a Baptist pastor's daughter in Illinois. Its simplicity was an essential and attractive part of its quality and strength.
Second album i don't know who needs to hear this... is built on similar straightforward qualities and is another immediate winner. She has a warm, emotive voice and her willingness to lay herself and her frailties and vulnerabilities bare is a rare one.
Honesty is a wonderful characteristic and this is another incredibly honest album. Comparisons with other female singer songwriters who write, play acoustic guitars and sing the songs they've written is superfluous and unecessary here as the best thing about i don't know who needs to hear this... is that its the sound of an artist becoming herself.
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