We've Been Going About This All Wrong
by Sharon Van Etten

We've Been Going About This All Wrong by Sharon Van Etten
Year: 2022
Release date: 2022-05-06
Overall rank: 4,513th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 101 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2022 (64th)
Award Top albums of of the 2020s (308th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,513th)

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Sharon Van Etten bestography

We've Been Going About This All Wrong is ranked 4th best out of 8 albums by Sharon Van Etten on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Sharon Van Etten is Are We There which is ranked number 1266 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,377.

Sharon Van Etten album bestography « Higher ranked (2,877th)
Tramp
This album (4,513th)
We've Been Going About This All Wrong
Lower ranked (7,665th) »
Epic

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 4,513th | 2020s rank: 308th | 2022 rank: 64th

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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 101 votes)
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75/100
From 01/03/2023 11:08 | #292462
Album Rating: 72.80
(728/10)

1.Darkness Fades. 70
2.Home To Me. 77
3.I’ll Try. 71
4.Anything. 71
5.Born. 78
6.Headspace. 83
7.Come Back. 69
8.Darkish. 69
9.Mistakes. 69
10.Far Away. 71
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70/100
Musically, S.V.E is almost unrecognisable in 2022. Gone are the heartfelt folk stylings circa ‘Tramp’ (2012) and 2014’s masterpiece ‘Are We There’ and instead replaced with big bold songs all sharply polished and produced to within an inch of their lives. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it did take me several spins to warm to the new sound

Lyrically, this is probably her most powerful statement yet, with the love for her son seemingly the overarching central theme
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75/100
Sharon Van Etten’s latest offering was produced by her at her home studio in LA. It’s her most lyrically impressionistic yet insular piece of work to date, detailing the near destruction of her property by forest fires, post pandemic relationship breakdown and hope for the future.
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