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Clear and Confident but never overly so. Deliberate and gracious
— Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie)
I don’t find it cheesy
— John K. Samson Fellows

Jacob Brodovsky is a singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba Treaty One Territory. He writes songs about feelings, the people who have them, the places that create them, and the fears we have about them. In the tradition of other prairie songwriters, Jacob’s songs are humble yet intricate, and as humorous as they are heartbreaking.

Jacob won the 2024 Canadian Folk Music Award for English Songwriter of the Year, has toured Canada and Europe many times, and recently has landed supporting slots for other Canadian artists such as MOONRIIVR and The Weather Station. He has collaborated with artists such as Charlotte Cornfield, Boy Golden, John K Samson Fellows, Campbell Woods, Old Man Luedecke, Ellen Froese, Sierra Noble, Roman Clarke, Madeleine Roger, Slow Spirit, The Funky Miracles, and Dominique Adams

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Tell The Kids We Tried

Produced and Engineered by MOONRIIVR over 6 days in January, 2025 at Collector Studio.

All songs written by Jacob Brodovsky

Personnel (In order of appearance):

Champagne James Robertson - Guitar, Vibraphone, Bass, Percussion

Dominique Adams - Vocals

Taylor Jackson - Vocals

Jason Tait - Drums, Percussion, Synth, Vibraphone, Tube, Guitar. 

John Baron - Bass, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals

Jacob Brodovsky - Vocals, Guitar, Wurlitzer, Piano, Mellotron

Gavin Gardiner - Synth, Vocals, Mellotron, Piano, Percussion

Julie Penner - Violin

Keiran Placatka - Piano

Charlotte Cornfield - Vocals

Additional Production by Jacob Brodovsky and Jason Tait

Additional engineering by Jacob Brodovsky, Jason Tait, John Baron, and Gavin Gardiner at their homes, All Day Coconut Recording in Toronto, and Traditional Grip Audio in Winnipeg. 

Mixed by Gavin Gardiner & Champagne James Robertson at All Day Coconut in Toronto

Mastered by Kristian Montano

Photos by Buio Assis

Mask by Toby Gillies 

Photoshoot support by Lexie Yurman, and River Yurman

Front and back cover featuring Shiloh 

Design/Layout by Erik Grice


Vocal arrangement on It’s Alright by Dominique Adams and Madeleine Roger

Made in Winnipeg. 

Marla Guerreiro

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Jacob Brodovsky spins mundane observations with imaginative insights, using lyrical richness and splashes of humour to paint in pensive musings and quirky, comforting colour
— Exclaim!
There is nothing artificial or contrived about the music in any of the songs on I Love You and I’m Sorry. Every note which appears in every song on this album needs to be here. There is a power and a passion about the music which binds it together; it is beautiful and artful and is capable of the hearts of everyone who hears it.
— Ground Control Magazine

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