Lav's Music Corner

Review by Lavender: Sharon Van Etten is a singer-songwriter who has been operating since the late 2000s. She eventually rounded into a full-on critical darling with her 3rd and 4th albums Tramp and Are We There  a few years later. Following those, she took a full 5-year break from studio albums to focus on passions outside of music. While the two records she's released since then weren't met with quite as much acclaim, I've still enjoyed them both, which had me excited for this new project. This album, her seventh, is a shift towards a more rock-oriented sound for which she recruited the services of a three-piece band called The Attachment Theory.  There's two singles that had me pretty excited for this record and they both pop up in the first 4 songs. "Afterlife" was the lead single and I like it quite a bit. I love the way the full array of instrumentation is hidden until just the right moment, highlighting just how great the chorus is. I also really enjoyed...