Sharon Van Etten's 'We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong' is intensely emotional, digging into chaos that’s both personal and cultural. We spoke with her about it here.
“Every album is a chapter of my life,” Sharon Van Etten says now, Zooming from California, as her dog runs around. “On the last record,I felt like I was in a good place, reflecting on where I was, offering that to others. With this, it’s more, ‘Yeah, this is hard. I don’t have the answers but I’m trying to figure it out. I know you are too.’ More like a collective ‘What the fuck?'”. It’s full of songs that ask tough questions about how to find beauty in the darkness.
The first songs to come were two of the album’s standouts, “Darkish” and “Far Away.” As she says, “Those two I had written in New York and I just remember thinking they were too morose, too apocalyptic. I thought, ‘This isthe time to release dark songs about the end of the world and dying.’ But all the other songs, they were coping mechanisms.
But parenthood made her focus. “My son just turned five,” she says with a laugh. “He had a best friend two doors down — they had walkie-talkies and screamed across the yards. When my neighbor was watering her yard, my son would stand on the trash can, look over the wall, and they’d have conversations.” Her child is a constant presence on the album. “I want him to know I was thinking of him,” she says. “There’s a few hidden messages to my son in there, just reminding him that I tried my best.
As an album geek, she relishes the challenge of pacing a full record. “It’s like sequencing Tetris,” she says. “The jigsaw puzzle of getting each song in the right order. Then I want to shift gears in the second half, especially for the vinyl lover — you know, when you flip a record and go, ‘Whaaat?'”
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