Even if this album doesn't speak to your specific life, it will nevertheless enrich it. 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. 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. The stately "I Told You Everything" gives way to the coiled nocturnal throb of "No One's Easy to Love," "Comeback Kid" shimmers with dark New Wave sensuality, and "Seventeen" uncovers the melancholy that lies in boundless freedom. This contrast generates a similar emotional pull to the quieter Tramp, yet the effect is more enveloping since Remind Me Tomorrow constantly changes its tone and perspective. Some of the sounds are conscious throwbacks, but they don't play like retro nostalgia, not in the context of Remind Me Tomorrow, which juxtaposes fearless aural adventure with keenly observed observations of easing into a satisfied life. Working with producer John Congleton, she's expanded her sonic palette, incorporating vintage synthesizers and drum loops while occasionally cranking up her amplifiers. Van Etten maintains that sense of drama on Remind Me Tomorrow, her fifth full-length album, but she's radically shifted her presentation. From her 2009 debut Because I Was in Love through 2014's Are We There, she mined the tension generated by murmuring instrumentation clashing with her passionate delivery, a balance that proved quietly compelling.
Remind Me Tomorrow isn’t a total reinvention of the wheel for Sharon Van Etten, but it’s a welcome evolution that finds her at the top of her game.For a decade, Sharon Van Etten specialized in understatement. This (her fifth album) was written while SVE was guest starring in The OA, getting involved in the revival of Twin Peaks, writing the score for the film. The record slows down a bit toward the end as the big, dramatic blasts of synthesizers and drums are replaced by moody drum machines and subtler melodies, but it finishes strong as a complete and satisfying listen from start to finish.
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Is there a non-Springsteen lyric more Springsteen than, “I used to be free / I used to be seventeen”? “Seventeen” is a catchy, infections and immediately accessible nostalgia-soaked stroke of genius. The songs of Remind Me Tomorrow feature similar composition throughout, but vary enough to hit all the right notes: “No One’s Easy to Love” has a moany Thom Yorke flavor to it “Malibu” is a plodding, hefty tune, featuring a wild, soaring synth lead that recalls late-stage Bowie “Your Shadow” is defined by a rich, sweet bubblegum swagger.īut the crowning jewel is the single “Seventeen.” It’s a simple song that moves at a confident clip with low, bassy synths humming under a charging rhythm until they’re set lose toward the middle of the track, creating a weird, almost alien melancholy soundscape as Van Etten belts out a wistful letter to her seventeen-year-old self.
From start to finish, the record is stirring, moody, affecting and real.īut for a few minor production choices, opening track “I Told You Everything” would’ve fit right in on Van Etten’s 2014 masterwork Are We There - but doesn’t take long before we’ve left Van Etten’s familiar, delicate piano rock behind for a bigger, more decadent world of groovy rhythms, chirping keyboards and deep, dark synthesizers. It’s a record too theatrical to be defined by its authenticity and too confident to be defined by its vulnerability a blend of emotion and style that only Sharon Van Etten could pull off at this stage in her accomplished career - and pull it off she does. Remind Me Tomorrow, the new record from indie rock maven Sharon Van Etten, is a synth-soaked, mid tempo collection of songs that conjures all the nostalgia of Arcade Fire’s best work and all the moodiness of The National’s recent Sleep Well Beast with occasional flashes of Bruce Springsteen and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree era-inspired genius. The multi-faceted show features installation, artist books, performance art, and sculptures using a multitude of textures and mediums that. Fire Note Says: Remind Me Tomorrow 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.Īlbum Review: Ever wondered what it would sound like if Arcade Fire and The National teamed up? No? Well, now you don’t have to. Denver-based, Korean American artist Sammy Lee opens Remind Me Tomorrow at the Emmanuel Art Gallery on May 25, 2021, a solo exhibition exploring motherhood, domesticity, immigration, and prejudice.
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