(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. 

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