It is altogether more bombastic and makes use of new instruments and musical stylings compared to previous entries, yet it does not stray too far from her core sound aesthetic. Remind Me Tomorrow is an interesting clash of old and new from Van Etten’s career. To that end, I embarked on my melodic quest with Van Etten’s latest. After all, I’ve often found that breaking my musical comfort zone to engage with new musical tastes is an incredibly enlightening experience. However, I resolved to listen with an open mind. Photo by Katherine Dieckmann.įor me, I freely admit that Sharon Van Etten’s catalog was not really a genre of music I was particularly interested in, nor was the artist herself someone I had heard of. Perhaps, when they needed it most, music inspired hope. An artist never knows if one of their songs played at the right moment to the right person may come to form a core memory in that person’s life experience. Certainly, there is value in deconstructing it or hearing the artist’s original intentions, yet, to assume that these alone make up the entire significance of a song or album is to overlook music’s most important aspect, its interaction with the audience. Like poetry, music speaks to the individual. I suspect these are byproducts of the intrinsically personal nature of musical interpretation. Maybe with some practice, the difficulty will go away, but perhaps it never does. Certainly, I face some difficulty now for my first album review trying to come up with more to say than go out and take a listen, it’ll be worth it. It is difficult, I imagine, to write a review for an album. Yet, these qualities undersell the vibrant energy that also underscores so much of Van Etten’s music, a spirit that is especially evident when it bursts forth in full force in a song like “Comeback Kid”. They are the fundamental underlying aesthetic of Van Etten’s latest album, Remind Me Tomorrow. These are the characteristics that jump out from the internal reverberations of a pair of headphones or car speakers when listening to “I Told You Everything” or “Jupiter 4” by Sharon Van Etten.
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