Sharon Van Etten’s 2009 album “Because I Was in Love,” is the debut album by American singer–songwriter.
The album was released May 26, 2009 on Language of Stone.The album received a rating of 7.7 from Pitchfork Media adding: Van Etten keeps the album’s arrangements minimal and direct, augmenting her voice and guitar with only the occasional splash of organ, brushed cymbals, or multi-tracked vocal harmonies.Intimacy reigns supreme on Sharon Van Etten’s debut, which finds the folksinger crooning her melodies over beds of acoustic guitar, keyboard, and overdubbed harmonies. Her lyrics are the stuff of heartbreak and uncertainty — “I wish I knew what to do with you” she laments during the first track, and later refers to herself as a lover’s “consolation prize” — but her performances are confident, both simple in their delivery and subtle in their emotional punch. “Because I Was in Love” isn’t a bare-boned folk album; rather, it’s the sort of record that unfolds its layers with repeated listens, and the arrangements are often gorgeously lush without threatening to overpower Van Etten’s alto.
In the music video for “Your Love Is Killing Me,” Sharon Van Etten paints a devastating portrait of unrequited love, one that ends with the same kind of quiet shock that has come to be a defining element of VanEtten’s music. As such, she has, over the course of four acclaimed albums, become one of our foremost documentarians of love and all its horrors (and, occasionally, its pleasures), a role she continues to inhabit on her most recent offering Are We There. Van Etten has grown increasingly more ambitious with each release, with “Are We There‘s” most startling growth manifesting itself in her preternatural confidence, one that previous releases hinted at but never quite fully realized. That degree of conviction renders Van Etten’s already powerful songwriting even more affecting, making “Are We There” a listening experience rare in both its vulnerability and its certainty, an experience not unlike the roller coaster relationships about which Van Etten so candidly sings.
The lyrics on Sharon Van Etten’s fourth album don’t always make for easy listening. “He can break me, with one hand,” she falsettos during one chorus, whereas Your Love Is Killing Me features broken legs, cut tongues and burned skin. As with her previous album “Tramp” these revelations feel intimate and shocking, and gain further power when Van Etten appears to fall back under her lover’s spell.”
If there’s one album this year that’s guaranteed to leave you emotionally devastated, it’s Sharon Van Etten’sAre We There. The singer-songwriter throws all her pain into her gorgeous fourth album, resulting in rousing musings on a crumbling relationship and the anguish of wondering whether it was all her fault. which mixed her folkier roots with more powerful dynamics, though here she branches out with synths and organs (see “Taking Chances” and “Our Love”). But the real soul-crusher comes with “Your Love Is Killing Me,” on which she repeats, “Burn my skin so I can’t feel you / Stab my eyes so I can’t see.” Despite all the pain and doubt, Van Etten sounds more confident than ever on Are We There, adding more strength to her vocals without sacrificing the delicate beauty that makes them so haunting. You might feel like a wreck after listening, but the roller coaster ride is worth the price of admission.
On Jools Holland show last night Sharon Van Etten American singer songwriter from Brooklyn perfomed the song “I Know” solo on piano, Van Etten has a new album “Are We There” released in May this year.
Brooklyn musician Sharon Van Etten performed the song “Break Me” from the recent album “Are We There” on the Jimmy Kimmel TV show now in its eleventh season,
recorded at the Stone Pony for the AV club, Sharon Van Etten has a new album due out soon, but here she covers a wonderful version of Bruce Springsteen’s “Drive all Night” she really brings some spectacular emotion into what is an excellent performance solo on piano .
the new album “ARE WE THERE” is available on the 27th May three albums in and after some collaborations with the likes of Rufus Wainwright and Nick Cave has grown as a vocalist since her last album,
One of my favourite singer songwriter’s after her shows awhile back I found her mesmerizing to watch with her elegant vocal harmonies and with such a cool vocal delivery the new direction is more moodier darker with a more soulful feel about the song,a New Album is due May 27th on jagjaguwar records
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