“New Jersey songwriter returns with contagious confidence and riveting ingenuity”
“Rolling Stone hailed Van Etten’s last album – 2014’s acclaimed ‘Are We There’ – as “one of the great albums of the century”. Five years on, they’re going to lose it over her fifth album, which is sounding like it may take a run for that title. ‘Remind Me Tomorrow’ is a departure from Van Etten’s previous guitar-focused sound, written on synths and piano. It rumbles with deep drones and is punctua”
“Sharon Van Etten's new album is the crown jewel in her peerless catalogue”
“We all approach artistic evolution in different ways. Die-hard fans might feel angry or betrayed at a musician’s new direction. They might commit themselves to one particular album, destined to play it on repeat forever even as their favorite band grows and grows. Saturday Night Live’s recent critique on the matter, using the always divisive Weezer as a marker, proves as such: Sometimes we’re just”
“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.”
“In October, Sharon Van Etten released her first new song in almost five years. ‘Comeback Kid’ a thumping slice of electro-pop, coincided with the announcement that she didn’t want the single and her fifth album, ‘Remind Me Tomorrow’, “to be pretty”. Mission accomplished, then. Because this album, in all its chaotic glory, is raw, heavy and almost certainly the most immediate piece of work she’s do”
