Sharon Van Etten

is she pregnant? I think I saw a post of her on fb that gave me that impression. I love her albums unreservedly.

I want to watch this show but I hear it will make me give up all hope on life

Man tramp is classic

Man like Olsen she’s singing about an abusive ex that should go duck themselves

Are We There real classic too

Three songs from the new album due 18th January have come out and they are all excellent! I think I like the spooky Jupiter 4 best but the title song Seventeen which is nicely building up to her primal scream is great too. I am very intrigued about the rest of the album.

“seventeen” blew me away

never thought much of anything she done previously, but am riding hard for "Comeback Kid"

this album is gonna kick my ass, emotionally

Brad otm & I can't wait.

Trying to decide whether I should listen at my desk today, or hold out till the drive home.

I'm not sure what I think about this at all - the first few songs are ruined by bad arrangements and production yet again but Comeback Kid and Seventeen are terrific.

Didn't feel it until watching the Jimmy Kimmel vid, but Seventeen really channels some Bruce.

I'm not sure what I think about this at all - the first few songs are ruined by bad arrangements and production yet again but Comeback Kid and Seventeen are terrific.

― Matt DC, Saturday, January 19, 2019 5:25 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk i think the arrangement of the first song is perfect with those spaced-out piano chords, and while i haven’t gotten into “memorial day” as a song yet i really love the brief dip into trip-hop

“comeback kid” -> “jupiter 4” -> “seventeen” is absolutely the core of the record tho

also really love the bounciness of “you shadow”

This new one sounds pretty good to me, and the songs are good, but the whole languid-vocals-over-robotic-rhythms seems a strange, kind of over-familiar choice. .

I don't love this album nearly as much as Are We There or Tramp; and I agree that the production choices here make the album seem slightly ... generic. Seventeen is a great song but I'm struggling to recall what the other songs sound like.

actually you know what this album reminds me of? the last warpaint album (and the one before it slightly), at least productionwise. Sounds good but I feel like it also dilutes some of the impact of the songs, some of them mixed to a point where they just sound soupy.

V. nice new song, a soundtrack cut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwv_vW3n8z0

^ Just heard this song this weekend, and have been listening to it on repeat -- it's really good!

i'm v. late to this but i can't stop listening to this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzkr2i6Szy8

she popped up in a cameo in one of the sundance movies that i streamed the other night (how it ends, which was cute but very inessential)

Fiona covering Sharon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhXd7YvCbgE

IDLES the band doesn't do it for me in general, but "Peace Signs" is such a perfect song, their whacked-out cover works quite well.

From the new VU tribute album (w/ Angel Olsen on backing vocals)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDzadxEmhI

I somehow didn't see the video for this until the other day, lost track of how many times I've watched it. This is the hottest video I've seen in some years. Director really knows how to capture some smoldering looks. Production on this song is a wonderful Spector Wall of Sound that never gets muddy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ibj87fwRaM

Great kitchen dancing.

Angel Olsen's haircut is my album of the year.

Song is so epic. It needs an '80s blockbuster end credits sequence to soundtrack.

new album!!! i wasn’t even aware

I wrote about it and had a chat with her

https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/album/sharon-van-etten-weve-been-going-about-this-all-wrong-138270/

Lovely piece that, I’ll be checking out the album!

So I think this album is mostly a slog. She reverted back to long, slow, dramatic songs and ditched the bounce of her last album. Weirdly the album kicks up the pace only in the last few songs - if almost feels like the track list is mistakenly reversed.

I'd put off listening to this because I'd given up hope that she'd given up hope - seems like she'd conquered her demons, which while wonderful for the human being had made her albums less engrossing to me. I felt bad saying that out loud, but maybe I just prefer unadorned slogs. "Anything" has what I was missing. Her records have been growers for me, so hoping more will grow soon.

Well, I think this album is a marked improvement over the last one, which sounded like crap even when the songs were good. But I prefer her doing slow and sad.

Interesting- I think her last album is by far her best. I like some of the older stuff too but I felt like she’d hit a new level with that one. But the new album is much more of a piece with her earlier output.

It's down to whether you like dreary folk shit or pop music, I guess. I mean I like both but I didn't find the poppiest moments on the last album to be very convincing (though I like seeing her play those songs live; but I felt like the performances on the album were more hesitant and the production really amped up to add energy that wasn't quite there in the studio and as a result things I like about her sounded buried).

I can’t stop listening to this album. Too short is my only complaint. There are so many beautiful songs on this.

this album is def better than the previous

Hm! I had no idea ILM didn't think much of her last album.

it’s good but it felt like a few of the new production tricks distracted from what i liked about her. i love dirgey dramatic sharon, i like feeling like her songs are gonna cover me very slowly with their big black wings

I like the new album so far and it seems to grow with each play. Especially « headspace » which is great although she might have gone a bit over the top with the repetition of the lyrics in the chorus !

Headspace is my favorite track on the album

I will say that several of the songs tend to be builds that just repeat, then grow in intensity, and then end; there is less of what you may call 'intricate songwriting' involved in something like Anything. But, at the same time, Anything is one of the best songs on the album. So it's not like it's not working. I'm sensitive to this stuff because when I write songs like this (two chords that repeat over and over for some amount of time) one of my bandmates gives me shit and says it needs 'something else'; sometimes he's right, sometimes I disagree with him. In the case of Anything, the 'something else' is really increased volume and layered overdubs. This is either a legit approach to writing a song to you, or a cop out. I think it's legit, but I do see the other side.

Anything sounds like Belinda Carlisle.

this is definitely my favorite sve album, wow

"born" very fumbling towards ecstasy

...aoty

I don’t know enough about her œuvre but I really like this album, yeah

'far away' has some very definite Cocteau Twins vibes to it once the drum and bass comes in

caught the Wildhearts tour last night (SVE, Angel Olsen, and Julien Baker), really great show though curious to have Angel Olsen take the headliner slot. I gather that SVE is a very gracious and nice person and that may have been her idea, but it is kind of unfair to Angel Olsen; a lot of people bailed during her lower-energy, half-country set (their loss, she is pretty incredible)

SVE's stage presence was A+ at the show I saw. Was she wearing her badass leather pants again?

I definitely did bail during AO, but that had more to do with sheer physical exhaustion than anything. Reaching yr mid-30s means you gotta know when to say "enough," and 3+ hours in a sun-baked 90° outdoor venue with no seating is enough.