Remind Me Tomorrow
| Sharon Van Etten
Remind Me Tomorrow
Remind Me Tomorrow is the fifth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten. It was released on January 18, 2019 on Jagjaguwar. A follow-up to Are We There (2014), the album was written while Van Etten was pregnant with her first child, attending school to obtain a degree in psychology and starring in the Netflix series The OA (2016) and making a cameo in Twin Peaks (2017). -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Conjures tempests and explores their subsequent calms. It is the peak of her songwriting and her most atmospheric, emotionally piercing album to date.
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Consequence of Sound
When more and more people are indulging in the comforts of the past rather than finding the will to indulge in the darkness. That’s Van Etten. That’s this album.
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NME
A forceful and playful shove to remind listeners just how special Van Etten’s talent is on both a lyrical and musical level. Don’t call it a comeback, but it may well be her most intoxicating and impressive work to date.
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Paste Magazine
Maintains Van Etten’s gothic sensibilities. She moves me most when she sings in her dusky howl.
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Stereogum
Remind Me Tomorrow is not a polite indie rock album. It throbs and hisses and seethes. It is night music, music for driving empty city streets after all the bars have closed.
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Spin
Van Etten’s peers have meanwhile moved in different directions, and after 40 demos written over two years, it was her turn for a musical reinvention.
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Independent
She’s reimagined the form with ballads that are introspective yet assertive, unafraid to plunge into personal quandaries without providing songwriterly reassurance.
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The Atlantic
The Brooklyn singer’s fifth album, bustles with the feeling of disconnection conquered.
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Variety
That combination of calm focus and chaos perfectly encapsulates the album, and probably Van Etten’s past few years.
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Drowned in Sound
A delightful return, one that gives us a new (pleasingly less traumatic) window into Van Etten’s world.
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The Gaurdian
Whether Van Etten is brooding on the present or pining for the good old days, however, the general impression remains the same: this ambitious, arresting album feels like the work of an artist wielding her considerable talents with newfound confidence and conviction.
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American Songwriter
This album manages to be striking even when the words are minimized or backgrounded. Van Etten may be transforming, but she’s still triumphing.
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The Line of Best fit
Van Etten has seemingly done the impossible – reinvented herself by doubling down on her own artistic tendencies. She bet on black and won.
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AV Club
A stark reminder that although dwelling on past miseries and indiscretions is easy and often even comfortable, the braver choice is moving forward and facing the future head-on.
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Band Camp
A great leap into new territory for Van Etten stylistically, but there isn’t a single moment of distrust in her abilities as a songwriter to be found—nor is there any mistaking her trademark voice.
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DIY Magazine
That she has harnessed it so masterfully surely confirms her position as one of her generation’s most compelling voices.
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Now Toronto
On her fifth album, the singer/songwriter has grown – simultaneously more open, experimental, optimistic and sharp. She’s breezy here. Comfortable, even.
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Mother Jones
Marks a dramatic sonic change, expanding her palette to include such elements as synths and uptempo grooves, with no loss of emotional heat.
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Earmilk
It has become clear that Van Etten has not lost any of the relevance with which she writes and sings, despite the nature of the album's title.
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New Noise Magazine
It’s an album documenting Sharon Van Etten now, as a an artist, a mother, someone who has seen things and done stuff. It’s a wonderfully constructed piece from an artist who has always shared her whole heart. It’s no different here, but the palette she uses now is one that has shades deeper than anyone could possibly imagine.
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Pop Matters
It's certainly the best album of her career so far, but Remind Me Tomorrow is also quite obviously more of a jumping-off point than a culmination of any kind. Even as she ponders how she got here, Van Etten's sights are clearly attuned towards where she'll be heading next.
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NPR
But you don't have to know anything about Van Etten to find this album striking and impressive. It's the sound of a woman redefining herself, on terms that are totally her own.
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Highway Queens
But just for this little moment in her life the dream of happiness is real and she’s turned it into the best album of her career. Let’s worry about the future tomorrow.
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The Times UK
The singer-songwriter confronts life head on and gives us some great tunes.
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Sound Blab
You sure could do far worse than end up in Van Etten’s shoes, but if the fear of that is what spurs Van Etten’s most urgent moments on Remind Me Tomorrow we all get to benefit from it.
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The Walleye
If this album pops up in your recommendations do NOT pass it by and click Remind Me Tomorrow!
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The 405
Van Etten returns with renewed purpose and ambition on Remind Me Tomorrow. We’re all lucky for it.
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Exclaim
Not only a reminder of the power of love but also features some of Van Etten's finest work to date.
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London In Stereo
Her most intelligent, daring and assured work to date.
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Immortal Reviews
It’s a complex record, but it’s a familiar one all the same. There’s nothing quite unique and nothing overly specific that would alienate anyone. It’s a record for understanding.
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Atwood Magazine
Whether it be the stirring melodies, the moody synths, or her intoxicating bellows of pain and triumph, ‘Remind Me Tomorrow’ shows that Sharon Van Etten is a musician nonpareil, crafting an album that exudes excellence with every note hit and sung
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Louder Than War
Nothing short of a masterpiece.
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Golden Plec
Has Sharon exploring unfamiliar musical textures and creating something new with them – less breathless, more inscrutable. It is a welcome step in her career.
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Sputnik Music
It's in a way that is honest and true to who she is now, and far away from who she was then.
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Northern Transmissions
All the highs and lows she sings of – all her cautionary doubts and words of encouragement – come with finding ways and time to chase what one wants in life.
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NZ Herald
It's heart-breaking and hopeful, and it shows that van Etten remains eternally open to learning from life's rocky, inexplicable road.
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Telegraph
Swapping heartbreak for happiness.
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Crack Magazine
Returning to her songcraft after marking off epochal moments in her personal life, Remind Me Tomorrow pops with vibrancy on a record that makes Van Etten’s voice feel more alive and present than ever.
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Thank Folk For That
New dark synth-pop sound is ambitious and alluring, and is guaranteed to have you listening to this album on repeat.
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Music OMH
If Van Etten is more settled though, that hasn’t dulled her songs of their emotional impact.
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Under the Radar
Stands comfortably alongside Van Etten's finest work but also, excitingly, quite aside from it. Van Etten continues to amaze, move and impress with every move.
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No Ripcord
The changes in Van Etten’s life are reflected on two of the strongest singles she’s ever written.
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The Skinny UK
There’s more of a hopefulness and sense of promise that suits her just as well.
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Albumism
Even if the material and formula have been heard before, Remind Me Tomorrow feels brand new.
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13th Floor NZ
It’s still synth and beat driven, but serves as a lovely coda for an album.
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Spill Magazine
The sound of a musician exploring new directions. We did not expect Sharon Van Etten to make an album with bass-heavy, dance-punk music, but we are better off because of it.
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Loud and Quiet
It rumbles with deep drones and is punctuated with sharp drums as a life lived outside of music resonates through the lyrics. There’s a happiness and a personal peace in spite of the world falling apart.
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The Sentry
Delves into the reality that life can be chaotic and overwhelming, hiding the beauty beneath.
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Clash Music
This newfound adventurousness bleeds into the album’s wider sound, most obviously in her willingness to dabble with some pretty prominent electronics.
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The Diamondback
Remind Me Tomorrow has a couple of shining gems, but the music simply becomes too repetitive to make a truly great album. Van Etten is capable of great things, and this album is almost one of them.
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MCR Live
This is an album to listen to, pay attention to the careful layering of sounds, lose yourself in her nostalgic narratives, and, if you need to have a good cry over your ex, it wouldn’t be bad for that either.
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The Fire Note
Isn’t a total reinvention of the wheel, but it’s a welcome evolution that finds Sharon Van Etten at the top of her game.
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Gigwise
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. Releasing her fifth studio album Remind Me Tomorrow, she tests the boundaries with what she can do, and has gone further than she ever imagined.
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Treblezine
For an artist that had had once been defined by the pain in her singing voice, the positivity that courses through Remind Me Tomorrow must be of some relief. For the listener, it is compelling in a different way to her previous work, perhaps signalling the start of a second, more experimental phase in her career.
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Slug Magazine
She is that rare artist that finds ways to throw her literary characters into her music landscape and vision. I found it a pleasure discovering them —you will too. I believe this is the first great album of 2019
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The Student Playlist
A significant sonic expansion but retains all of the qualities that made her name.
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Your Music Radar
Sonic textures, gorgeous yet sinister, forming musical landscapes that entice you into the world of Van Etten.
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Spectrum Culture
Van Etten has never sounded as ecstatic as she does on this record, and her already considerable body of work seems poised to get even better.
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4 Out of 5 Review
At its best, Remind Me Tomorrow digs its heels into the surface-deep world of pop music, and provides a fix. It’s a fantastic sonic evolution for Sharon’s voice, but as usual, that’s about it.
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Totally Dublin
With each listen, a different layer reveals itself to the audience. Like the passing of seasons and years, Remind Me Tomorrow’s forty-one minutes flashes by in an instant. As the final chords ring out, you’re compelled to relive it, instantly.
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Glide Magazine
A mix of highs and lows, pains and struggles, joys and triumphs.
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The Herald
But the highlight is the hypnotic Memorial Day which waltzes along with an ethereal loop before exploding with Van Etten’s trademark harmonies.
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Acrn
Van Etten is easily able to move between heavy moments and lighter themes.
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Positively Underground
The album doesn’t stew in her reality too directly, but it’s always present as Etten expertly translates her self into the visceral journey known as Remind Me Tomorrow.
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WVUA FM
If you’re looking for an album that has a little bit of everything, but specializes in new age pop with reminiscent storylines, look no further than Sharon Van Etten’s “Remind Me Tomorrow”, a window into the new era of her music.
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Riff Magazine
Van Etten’s potent presence both in voice and word resounds through the new sonic pathways the album opens. By preserving her identity in the midst of artistic adventuring, she has made Remind Me Tomorrow a testament to her perseverance and creativity in the face of the unknown.
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Medium
I imagine some people will be turned off by some of the artistic changes in making these songs, specifically the shift from folk to straight-up alt-rock, but it’s a shift I didn’t mind because Etten is a compelling lyricist and singer. Four out of five stars. Definitely check this one out.
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Too Many Blogs
It is hard to quibble and find fault because, after a single listen, you will fall in love with the album and keep playing it until all its layers and truths are revealed – a pleasurable proposition that will delight existing fans and bring new ones in.
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Popped Music UK
I could write about this album all day but I won’t because I want you all to go and order it now. You won’t regret it.
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Pitch Perfect PR
The breadth of these passions, of new careers and projects and lifelong roles, have inflected Remind Me Tomorrow with a wise sense of a warped-time perspective. This is the tension that arches over the album, fusing a pained attentive realism and radiant lightness about new love.
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KSLU
Sharon Van Etten’s fifth studio album released on January 18th, 2019, is nothing short of brilliant, creating a space for her, and all of us, to heal.
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Bust
Van Etten abandons the sparser sound of her earlier records in favor of synthesizers and more instrumentation, but her vocals (and her lyrics) remain as potent as ever.
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The Arts Desk
The result is an album that prangs with intelligent reflection, and pulls you in with a stormy, hypnotic glimmer.
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QRO Magazine
She has not just the skills and harmonies for alt-folk and more, but a compelling voice. At its highest moments, Remind Me Tomorrow delivers that in spades.
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MXDWN
The slower vibe fits much better at the end of the album as a way of tying everything up. “Stay” does a great job of indicating the album is over while leaving the listener satisfied with what they just listened to.
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The Perfect Tempo
It's a beautiful moment, straight from her heart and feels like a neat bow that ties the cohesive record together.
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Financial Times
The sense of progression is welcome, albeit at the cost of the catharsis that admirers sought in her previous work.
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Earbuddy
The new territory has invigorated her music, energized it, in a way that was missing in Are We There.
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Riffs And Rhymes
Now she’s an established artist at the vanguard of modern day singer-songwriters, admirably progressing into her next phase of creativity and simultaneously growing as a human being.
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Brooklyn Vegan
More immediate than any of its predecessors, and it has more big, memorable moments than any other Sharon Van Etten album to date. It’s the kind of late-career left turn that so many artists only dream of making. It truly sounds like a new beginning.
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Journal Star
It draws the listener into a musically brash and propulsive world where she spins out her newly discovered, shall we say, grown-up views of life and love and never lets go.
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Vada Magazine
Remind Me Tomorrow is Sharon Van Etten as she is right now with a new page turned and brilliantly, fearlessly looking forward.
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Dusted Magazine
It’s not what you expected—and it’s not as unearthly lovely as her earlier work—but it’s too wild and adventurous and interesting to disappoint.
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34th Street
Serves as Van Etten’s personal manifesto, a message to herself to keep continuing through a tumultuous past, a cluttered present, and an uncharted future. It’s raw and unedited, with each song extending well towards the five minute mark. Clearly, Van Etten has a lot to say, and we should all listen.
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Xpress magazine
She’s come back with a few good singles and little else.
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Far Out Magazine
This album is another huge step forward in the varied career of Sharon Van Etten. It is one she’s made with extra weight, extra light, extra happiness, and extra anxiety – it’s a step she’s made with life on her back.
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Read Dork
What it lacks in emotional heft, it makes up for in spirit. Sometimes change is good. In 'Remind Me Tomorrow', it’s electrifying.
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Jack's Media
The fact that she embraces electronica on this record in comparison to her acoustic-dominated work in the past was a brave move that has paid off.
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Tinnist
It was surely not easy creating. But between her unflinchingly piercing lyrics, more expansive sonic palette and more freewheeling approach, Van Etten has made a place amid the chaos.
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Since I Left You
Might even be her best album is reflective of her unabashed brilliance.
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Datebook
The lush melodies and twisting arrangements loom larger now in songs like “I Told You Everything” and the ever so slightly menacing “Memorial Day,” both of which showcase her seductive baritone.
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Pretty Much Amazing
These ten new songs, some of her best yet, brim with heart and wisdom.
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Surviving the Golden Age
While everyone else is trying to keep difficult emotions at bay, Van Etten is working with hers, allowing them to dictate the music resulting in a raw full expression of emotion.
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Evening Standard UK
Changing direction and writing some of the finest songs of her career.
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McGill Tribune
Van Etten has never sounded more confident expressing this unbreakable connection. Even in the midst of the chaos that is motherhood, she is a voice of reason.
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Straits Times
These detours create the greatest impact precisely because they are well-timed and sparingly used.
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WDCE
It’s a fantastic record for anyone looking to delve into an artist at the top of her game.
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Austin Town Hall
Sharon Van Etten is immensely talented and well-deserving of the moment she’s having, but this record feels less vulnerable.
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EW
For longtime fans, the familiarity of Van Etten’s folk ethos is still weaved throughout the 10-track record.
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Floated magazine
She's addicting.
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Secret Meeting
At its best, Remind Me Tomorrow feels like a glorious mix tape – but in heading so firmly into such synth heavy territory, one is left questioning: has her songwriting been negotiated to ensure immediacy?
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Metro News
Motherhood and time may have healed Van Etten, but her latest is as captivating as ever.
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Sydney Morning Herald
She has never sounded so sensuous.
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Tiny Mix tapes
Distinct from her usual fare — which is to say, more energetic and upbeat.
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Beat Route
Van Etten is a truly remarkable artist. 2019 hasn’t even really got going yet, but we clearly already have a contender for album of the year.
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Hot Press
The album as a whole is glorious, but sounds raw and gritty and off-the-cuff.
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Album Analysis
There’s lots to enjoy here once through, and a couple songs certainly have potential to be continually enjoyed.
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All Music
Each song is constructed like a short story and is given a distinct feel, but they're held together by Van Etten's subdued fearlessness. Throughout Remind Me Tomorrow, she plumbs the depths of contentedness, setting her satisfaction to a sound that's nominally dark yet strangely comforting and nourishing. Even if this album doesn't speak to your specific life, it will nevertheless enrich it.
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The Young Folks
Sharon Van Etten has made an album that feels effortless, personal yet universal, and genuinely adult.
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Marble Music
A bolder, more liberally coloured-in update of it’s predecessor. It is a record of spacious, vacuous production that never feels empty or half-baked. Van Etten is undeniably a class act and a voice that deserves more attention.
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Amoeba
Sharon Van Etten that won over the loyalty of fans years ago so don’t fear; she’s still got the recipe.
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Entertainment News Boom
Van Etten’s songs sound remarkably natural in their new setting.
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Tree Fingers Online
Her self-imposed challenge to write and perform with synthesizers more has proved fruitful – there’s newfound colour, flavour and texture in her music.
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Othemts
The effect is atmospheric and emotionally piercing, especially the lyrics the focus on surviving trauma, falling in love again, and muddling through the ever-messy present. This is a terrific work that is worth multiple listens.
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Monster Music
This is the tension that arches over the album, fusing a pained attentive realism and radiant lightness about new love.
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Burning Flame
Having also listened the previous album while I am writing this review, only confirms that that Sharon goes beyond her scope and that this is a new cosmic artwork.
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DIY
The sea change in Sharon’s personal life has given rise to a tidal wave of ambition in her music; that she has harnessed it so masterfully surely confirms her position as one of her generation’s most compelling voices.
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Freaky Party
And yet Van Etten remains resolutely herself: possessed of a slow-burning seethe that builds to swirling crescendos, she is a consummate surgeon of relationships.
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Rough Trade
Those harmonies - gorgeous rich and close enough to touch. And of course there are beautiful melodies dancing notes of gold-tinged joy.
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