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Acclaimed singer-songwriter and violinist Molly Thomas announces the September 26 release of Tumble Home, her most emotionally profound album to date.
Written in collaboration with producer and multi-instrumentalist Ken Rose (Marianne Faithfull, Kip Winger), this ten-song collection was born of a deep introspection, sudden upheaval, and a hard-won return to grace.
In nautical terms, a "tumblehome" is a structural curve that offers stability to a ship. For Thomas, the term initially appeared in a lyric as an evocative image of emotional ballast. But when she was T-boned at an intersection midway while recording, the metaphor took on a lot more weight.
“The accident took me out for five months,” she recalls. “Suddenly, the idea of ‘tumble home’ wasn’t just poetic - it was something I had to live through.”
The result is a record of immense beauty and hard-earned light. From orchestral folk ballads to driving indie rock and tender love songs, Tumble Home strikes a balance between emotional transparency and expansive arrangements. Thomas’s cinematic instincts honed through her years as a classically trained violinist and live performer give the album a striking narrative sweep.
The stirring lead single, “Even the Strong,” sets the tone. With its aching vocal, lush arrangements, and poetic vulnerability, the song explores the dissonance between how strength is perceived and how it is experienced. Other standout tracks include “Crash,” penned after the accident and unflinching in its confrontation with trauma, and “Tender Girl,” featuring a cameo from Todd Snider. In “Sorry,” Thomas leans into a driving indie-rock groove and unravels the emotional labor of people pleasing with unguarded clarity.
The album concludes with “I Am a Wave,” the first song written for Tumble Home, and a quietly powerful centerpiece. Told from the perspective of a wave, it captures the ebb and flow of a relationship - how two souls move through life’s tides, drifting apart, crashing, rising, and reuniting.
But like much of the album, the song also reflects a deep sense of place, rooted in the rhythms of the coast and the everyday beauty Thomas observes around her in Fairhope, Alabama.
Many of the songs on Tumble Home draw from the stories of people she knows and the landscapes she inhabits. With graceful string arrangements and a poetic sense of motion, “I Am a Wave” distills the album’s central themes: resilience, surrender, connection, and how where we are shapes who we are.
“Making this album challenged everything I thought I knew about myself as an artist,” says Thomas. “It required patience, trust, and the kind of resilience that doesn’t come with noise or bravado. It’s quiet. It’s persistent. And it’s supported by love, by community, by music itself.”
