Description:
(2019) Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Review:
…Sharon Van Etten has experienced a lot of change since the release of her last album, 2014’s Are We There, and they’re the kind of life-altering shifts — newfound romantic partnership, motherhood, career advancements — that are all but destined to reveal themselves in one’s art. And here, on her fifth studio effort Remind Me Tomorrow, those evolutions are apparent in a powerful sonic swerve, and in Van Etten’s desire to explore both nostalgia and rebirth, and maybe even how they intertwine. Remind Me Tomorrow is the first great rock album of the year, and it would behoove any and all of Van Etten’s fans, even those who staunchly prefer her folk-leaning material, and rock ‘n’ roll aficionados of all stripes to open their ears (and their hearts) to this beautifully executed pivot.
Remind Me Tomorrow is a New Yorker’s album. And not just because the magnificent music video for single “Seventeen” is Van Etten’s self-described “love letter” to the city, though that clip, which shows her revisiting NYC venues like Union Pool and Pianos, is compelling enough to convince you of the Brooklyn-based artist’s fierce love for the place she’s called home for almost 15 years. The whole album is a love letter to the city’s sounds and colors. Van Etten wasn’t herself present for NYC’s early 2000s rock renaissance, but there are nods to that era’s finest visionaries around every corner: The intense, driving Strokes-reminiscent rock ‘n’ roll on “Comeback Kid;” the synthy tick-tock of “No One’s Easy to Love,” comparable to that of LCD Soundsystem. Van Etten has captured the scrappy mood of the Lower East Side and brooding drag of Brooklyn, all while musing on her life, her new love (with former drummer and current manager Zeke Hutchins) and amorphous career.
In the past, Van Etten has specialized in lyrics that’ll make you weep—tales of disintegrated love, fodder for the heartbroken and, occasionally, remedies for the emotionally abused. These songs still possess the power to induce tears—chills, at the very least—but there’s not as much despair. On Remind Me Tomorrow, Van Etten’s a wizened kind of happy. The album opener, “I Told You Everything,” is about bearing it all to a partner, with no fears or doubts. “I told you everything,” she sings. “No changing my mind.” Later, on “Malibu,” as she ponders the longevity of her relationship, her imagery and narrative are as brilliant as ever. “I walked in the door / The Black Crowes playin’ as he cleaned the floor / I thought I couldn’t love him anymore.” As ever, Sharon Van Etten can pack 25 layers in a single verse, multiple meanings in one specific personal anecdote.
Tracklist:
01 - I Told You Everything.flac
02 - No One's Easy to Love.flac
03 - Memorial Day.flac
04 - Comeback Kid.flac
05 - Jupiter 4.flac
06 - Seventeen.flac
07 - Malibu.flac
08 - You Shadow.flac
09 - Hands.flac
10 - Stay.flac
Summary:
Country: USA
Genre: indie-folk, indie-rock
Media Report:
Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~ 787-1000 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits |
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