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We've Been Going About This All Wrong
Sharon Van Etten has always been the kind of artist who helps people make sense of the world around them, and her sixth album, Weāve Been Going About This All Wrong, concerns itself with how we feel, mourn, and reclaim our agency when we think the world - or at least, our world - might be falling apart. How do we protect the things most precious to us from destructive forces beyond our control? How do we salvage something worthwhile when it seems all is lost? And if we canāt, or we donāt, have we loved as well as we could in the meantime? Did we try hard enough? In considering these questions and her own vulnerability in the face of them, Van Etten creates a stunning meditation on how lifeās changes can be both terrifying and transformative. Weāve Been Going About This All Wrong articulates the beauty and power that can be rescued from our wreckages.
Weāve Been Going About This All Wrong is intensely personal, exploring themes like motherhood, love, fear, what we can and canāt control, and what it means to be human in a world that is wracked by so much trauma. The track āHome To Me,ā written about Van Ettenās son, uses the trademark ādark drumsā of her previous work to invoke the sonic impression of a heartbeat. Synths grow in intensity, evoking the passing of time and the terror of what it means to have your child move inevitably toward independence, wanting to hold on to them tightly enough to protect them forever. In contrast, āCome Backā reflects on the desire to reconnect with a partner. Recalling all the optimism of love felt in its infancy, Van Etten begins with the plain beauty of just her voice and a guitar, building the arrangement alongside the call to ācome backā to anyone who has lost their way, be it from another person or from themselves. Hovering between darkness and light, āBornā is an exploration of the self that exists when all other labels - mother, partner, friend - are stripped back.
The ten tracks on Weāve Been Going About This All Wrong are designed to be listened to in order, all at once, so that a much larger story of hope, loss, longing and resilience can be told. This is, in itself, a subtle act of control, but in sharing these songs it remains an optimistic and generous one. There is darkness here but there is light too, and all of it is held together by Van Ettenās uncanny ability to both pierce the hearts of her listeners and make them whole again. Things are not dark, she reminds us, only darkish.
Weāve Been Going About This All Wrong is intensely personal, exploring themes like motherhood, love, fear, what we can and canāt control, and what it means to be human in a world that is wracked by so much trauma. The track āHome To Me,ā written about Van Ettenās son, uses the trademark ādark drumsā of her previous work to invoke the sonic impression of a heartbeat. Synths grow in intensity, evoking the passing of time and the terror of what it means to have your child move inevitably toward independence, wanting to hold on to them tightly enough to protect them forever. In contrast, āCome Backā reflects on the desire to reconnect with a partner. Recalling all the optimism of love felt in its infancy, Van Etten begins with the plain beauty of just her voice and a guitar, building the arrangement alongside the call to ācome backā to anyone who has lost their way, be it from another person or from themselves. Hovering between darkness and light, āBornā is an exploration of the self that exists when all other labels - mother, partner, friend - are stripped back.
The ten tracks on Weāve Been Going About This All Wrong are designed to be listened to in order, all at once, so that a much larger story of hope, loss, longing and resilience can be told. This is, in itself, a subtle act of control, but in sharing these songs it remains an optimistic and generous one. There is darkness here but there is light too, and all of it is held together by Van Ettenās uncanny ability to both pierce the hearts of her listeners and make them whole again. Things are not dark, she reminds us, only darkish.
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Sharon Van Etten has always been the kind of artist who helps people make sense of the world around them, and her sixth album, Weāve Been Going About This All Wrong, concerns itself with how we feel, mourn, and reclaim our agency when we think the world - or at least, our world - might be falling apart. How do we protect the things most precious to us from destructive forces beyond our control? How do we salvage something worthwhile when it seems all is lost? And if we canāt, or we donāt, have we loved as well as we could in the meantime? Did we try hard enough? In considering these questions and her own vulnerability in the face of them, Van Etten creates a stunning meditation on how lifeās changes can be both terrifying and transformative. Weāve Been Going About This All Wrong articulates the beauty and power that can be rescued from our wreckages.
Weāve Been Going About This All Wrong is intensely personal, exploring themes like motherhood, love, fear, what we can and canāt control, and what it means to be human in a world that is wracked by so much trauma. The track āHome To Me,ā written about Van Ettenās son, uses the trademark ādark drumsā of her previous work to invoke the sonic impression of a heartbeat. Synths grow in intensity, evoking the passing of time and the terror of what it means to have your child move inevitably toward independence, wanting to hold on to them tightly enough to protect them forever. In contrast, āCome Backā reflects on the desire to reconnect with a partner. Recalling all the optimism of love felt in its infancy, Van Etten begins with the plain beauty of just her voice and a guitar, building the arrangement alongside the call to ācome backā to anyone who has lost their way, be it from another person or from themselves. Hovering between darkness and light, āBornā is an exploration of the self that exists when all other labels - mother, partner, friend - are stripped back.
The ten tracks on Weāve Been Going About This All Wrong are designed to be listened to in order, all at once, so that a much larger story of hope, loss, longing and resilience can be told. This is, in itself, a subtle act of control, but in sharing these songs it remains an optimistic and generous one. There is darkness here but there is light too, and all of it is held together by Van Ettenās uncanny ability to both pierce the hearts of her listeners and make them whole again. Things are not dark, she reminds us, only darkish.
Weāve Been Going About This All Wrong is intensely personal, exploring themes like motherhood, love, fear, what we can and canāt control, and what it means to be human in a world that is wracked by so much trauma. The track āHome To Me,ā written about Van Ettenās son, uses the trademark ādark drumsā of her previous work to invoke the sonic impression of a heartbeat. Synths grow in intensity, evoking the passing of time and the terror of what it means to have your child move inevitably toward independence, wanting to hold on to them tightly enough to protect them forever. In contrast, āCome Backā reflects on the desire to reconnect with a partner. Recalling all the optimism of love felt in its infancy, Van Etten begins with the plain beauty of just her voice and a guitar, building the arrangement alongside the call to ācome backā to anyone who has lost their way, be it from another person or from themselves. Hovering between darkness and light, āBornā is an exploration of the self that exists when all other labels - mother, partner, friend - are stripped back.
The ten tracks on Weāve Been Going About This All Wrong are designed to be listened to in order, all at once, so that a much larger story of hope, loss, longing and resilience can be told. This is, in itself, a subtle act of control, but in sharing these songs it remains an optimistic and generous one. There is darkness here but there is light too, and all of it is held together by Van Ettenās uncanny ability to both pierce the hearts of her listeners and make them whole again. Things are not dark, she reminds us, only darkish.
