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Singer/Songwriter's Striking Fifth Album On Vinyl LP!
Sharon Van Etten's Remind Me Tomorrow comes four years after Are We There, and reckons with the life that gets lived when you put off the small and inevitable maintenance in favor of something more present. Throughout Remind Me Tomorrow, Sharon Van Etten veers towards the driving, dark glimmer moods that have illuminated the edges of her music and pursues them full force. With curling low vocals and brave intimacy, Remind Me Tomorrow is an ambitious album that provokes our most sensitive impulses: reckless affections, spirited nurturing, and tender courage.
Remind Me Tomorrow was written in stolen time: in scraps of hours wedged between myriad endeavors - Van Etten guest-starred in The OA, and brought her music onstage in David Lynch's revival of Twin Peaks. Off-screen, she wrote her first score for Katherine Dieckmann's movie Strange Weather and the closing title song for Tig Notaro's show Tig. "The album title makes me giggle," says Van Etten. "It occurred to me one night when I, on auto-pilot, clicked 'remind me tomorrow' on the update window that pops up all the time on my computer. I hadn't updated in months! And it's the simplest of tasks!"
The songs on Remind Me Tomorrow have been transported from Van Etten's original demos through John Congleton's arrangement. Congleton helped flip the signature Sharon Van Etten ratio, making the album more energetic-upbeat than minimal-meditative. "I was feeling overwhelmed. I couldn't let go of my recordings - I needed to step back and work with a producer." She continues, "I tracked two songs as a trial run with John [Jupiter 4 and Memorial Day]. I gave him Suicide, Portishead, and Nick Cave's Skeleton Tree as references and he got excited. I knew we had to work together. It gave me the perspective I needed. It's going to be challenging for people in a good way." The songs are as resonating as ever, the themes are still an honest and subtle approach to love and longing, but Congleton has plucked out new idiosyncrasies from Van Etten's sound.
Alongside working on Remind Me Tomorrow, Van Etten has been exploring her talents (musical, emotional, otherwise) down other paths. She's continuing to act, to write scores and soundtrack contributions, and she's returning to school for psychology. The breadth of these passions, of new careers and projects and lifelong roles, have inflected Remind Me Tomorrow with a wise sense of a warped-time perspective. This is the tension that arches over the album, fusing a pained attentive realism and radiant lightness about new love.
"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." - Pitchfork
"'Follow me until you don't know where you are,' she warns near the end of the album on 'You Shadow', and that's honestly the best advice for anyone going into Remind Me Tomorrow. It's also refreshing advice for a time that has never felt more tumultuous, when more and more people are indulging in the comforts of the past rather than finding the will to indulge in the darkness. That's Van Etten. That's this album. And to quote Special Agent Dale Cooper, if we're keeping in theme, 'I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.'" - Consequence of Sound, Album of the Week
"Sharon Van Etten was already one of the great lyricists of the '10s, but with this breathtaking new project, she's proved an artistic pliancy her contemporaries may not possess. She hit her stride with Are We There, but here she's not even on the ground." - Paste Magazine
"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 done thus far... 'Remind Me Tomorrow', then, serves not so much as a nudge, but a forceful and playful shove to remind listeners just how special Van Etten's talent is on both a lyrical and musical level. Don't call it a comeback, but it may well be her most intoxicating and impressive work to date." - NME
Features:
• Vinyl LP
Selections:
1. I Told You Everything
2. No One's Easy To Love
3. Memorial Day
4. Comeback Kid
5. Jupiter 4
6. Seventeen
7. Malibu
8. You Shadow
9. Hands
10. Stay
