Remind Me Tomorrow
On her fifth proper full-length album, Sharon Van Etten pushes beyond vocals-and-guitar indie rock and dives headlong into spooky maximalism. With production help from John Congleton (St. Vincent), she layers haunting drones with heavy, percussive textures, giving songs like “Comeback Kid” and “Seventeen” explosive urgency. Drawing from Nick Cave, Lucinda Williams, and fellow New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen, *Remind Me Tomorrow* is full of electrifying anthems, with Van Etten voicing confessions of reckless, lost, and sentimental characters. The album challenges the popular image of Van Etten as *just* a singer-songwriter and illuminates her significant talent as composer and producer, as an artist making records that feel like a world of their own.
On her fifth album, Sharon Van Etten conjures tempests and explores their subsequent calms. It is the peak of her songwriting and her most atmospheric, emotionally piercing album to date.
Sharon Van Etten’s transformative fifth studio album, Remind Me Tomorrow, kicks off with a lyrical sucker punch: “Sitting at the bar, I told you everything / You said, ‘Holy shit. You almost died.’” To emphasize the gravity of the interaction, Van Etten slowly draws out each syllable, as funereal piano chords provide…
The New Jersey songwriter flips the script with an electrifying pop album with plenty of heart on 'Remind Me Tomorrow'
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Alongside Angel Olsen, she’s reimagined the form with ballads that are introspective yet assertive, unafraid to plunge into personal quandaries without providing songwriterly reassurance
Van Etten maintains that sense of drama on Remind Me Tomorrow, her fifth full-length album, but she's radically shifted her presentation.
Exploring more electronic sounds and upbeat melodies on her latest album, Remind Me Tomorrow, Sharon Van Etten sounds more hopeful than ever.
Sharon Van Etten wrote her fifth album, Remind Me Tomorrow, in, as she told Exclaim!, "a delirium of wanting to be creative." The album's so...
If you love an album with bundles of experimentation and silky-soft vocals then Sharon Van Etten is the artist you need to watch out for.
It's been five long, eventful years since Sharon Van Etten put out her magnificent, troubling, infinitely gorgeous Are We There, during which time the Brooklyn troubadour has ventured into both motherhood and television acting, while we've patiently waite
“Sitting at the bar I told you everything / You said, ‘Holy shit, you almost died.’” So begins the latest release from Sharon Van
Brooklyn artist Sharon Van Etten returns with a fifth album 'Remind Me Tomorrow' that marks a departure from her previous guitar-focused sound.
On her past albums, Sharon Van Etten explored fraught relationships and the fraught nature of the way people interact with each other.
Van Etten’s decision to shift to electronic instruments only adds to the thrill on this arresting album
Sharon Van Etten is a New York-based singer-songwriter who stirs intense devotion in her fans.
Musical metamorphosis blossoms with high emotion and hypnotic glimmer. Music review by Jo Southerd