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: 4,918th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 97 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2022 (63rd)
Award Top albums of the 2020s (300th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,918th)

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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 1249 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,379.

Sharon Van Etten album bestography « Higher ranked (2,866th)
Tramp
This album (4,918th)
We've Been Going About This All Wrong
Lower ranked (7,847th) »
Epic

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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We've Been Going About This All Wrong rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 4,918th | 2020s rank: 300th | 2022 rank: 63rd
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2026Juneof44Top 75 Music Albums of the 2020s27/758
2026 RepoTop 77 Music Albums of 202230/773
2026 paladisiac2020s, 65rating (65.5-65), #101-200*2/58 -
2026 TamthebamTop 95 Music Albums of 202214/954
2026Cheboygan74Top 55 Music Albums of 202239/552
2026 ExTeaSeaTop 100 Music Albums of 202288/1001
2026joathomeTop 92 Music Albums of 202221/924
2026lanadeleswiftTop 100 Music Albums of 202260/1002
2025 EyeKanFlyTop 100 Music Albums of 202274/1001
2025 zags7000Top 100 Music Albums of 202224/1004
2025henriknaessTop 48 Music Albums of 202218/483
2025 MontpejoTop 56 Music Albums of the 2020s26/568
2025 TamthebamTop 90 Music Albums of the 2020s68/903
2025ThuramThugoodRanked - Sharon Van Etten incl.collabs w/TAT - Ranked6/9 -
2025ThuramThugoodTop 100 Music Albums of 202283/1001
2025 paladisiactop 65r albums (65), #0101-0200*43/76 -
2025AlienCinemaTop 51 Music Albums of 202231/512
2025Sammyo_96Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s91/1001
2025arnellarsenTop 100 Music Albums of 202296/1000
2025skrapoelTop 34 Music Albums of 202231/341
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 114
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 280
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73/100 (from 97 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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From 09/24/2022 10:37 | #289928
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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From 08/27/2022 10:40 | #288959
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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