7.4
Avg Score
8
Opinions
#10,629
All Time
10
Tracks
“We’ve Been… is unmistakably the sound of an artist in their prime, hitting at all the conceptual points that they set out to reflect while remaining true to their strengths. ... We’ve Been… is certainly her strongest, boldest experiment as a songwriter yet.”
“Singer’s sixth album finds her fully in command of her ever-deepening talent”
“After more than a decade on the indie music scene, Sharon Van Etten is an artist who commands respect, and who never disappoints. Her discography of five studio LPs spans from the bare-bones folk love songs of Because I Was In Love to the atmospheric and at-times explosive Remind Me Tomorrow. Each record has its own tone and personality, but what they all have in common is the unshakeable strength”
“Produced in her home studio in Los Angeles, Sharon Van Etten’s sixth album embraces the complications of the past two years. It is her most epic record, yet lyrically it is her most insular.”
“WBGATAW contains Sharon Van Etten's biggest-sounding songs to date, which is maybe to the album's detriment sometimes.”
“Every Sharon Van Etten album drills deep into the grit of struggle and its pearl: resolve. Long a dissector of toxic relationships, this sixth outing finds her happily relocated from Brooklyn to LA, where Van Etten and her young family hadn’t unpacked before they had to see out a pandemic. Her usual scrying of messy innards now comes with an added dimension – that of trying to hold everything toge”
