We've Been Going About This All Wrong
by Sharon Van Etten
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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 1199 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,454.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 06/09/2026 12:07 | TonySayers61 | 25,287 | 64/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2026 12:52 | DJStuart79 | 5,983 | 59/100 |
| ! | 05/31/2026 05:33 | Proto | 4,246 | 33/100 |
| ! | 03/29/2026 07:38 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,463 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2025 19:26 | mutant | 1,671 | 56/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.6/100, a mean average of 71.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.
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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
Brad1770 09/24/2022 10:37 | #289928 | TOP COMMENT
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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
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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