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Sharon Van Etten’s New Album, 'We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong', Out Today Via Jagjaguwar
Today marks the release of Sharon Van Etten’s eagerly anticipated new album, We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong, out now via Jagjaguwar. After not releasing any album singles in the lead-up, fans can now listen to the record in its entirety as Van Etten intended: “From beginning to end, this album is an emotional journey that documents the rollercoaster of the last two years we have all experienced in our own ways. I hope you will take that ride with me. Thank you for staying by my side.”
We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong articulates the beauty and power that can be rescued from our wreckages, concerning itself with the questions we ask ourselves when we think the world – or at least, our world – might be ending. Have we loved as well as we could? Did we try hard enough? How do we protect the things most precious to us from destructive forces beyond our control? In considering these questions and her own vulnerability in the face of them, Van Etten has created a stunning meditation on how life’s changes can be both terrifying and transformative. There is darkness here but there is light too, and all of it is held together by Van Etten’s soaring vocals and 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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