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#19 | Sharon Van Etten | We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
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We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong runs the gamut of all the emotions felt during the pandemic, including the collective vertigo of peering over an abyss. However, the album also covers the elation many of us felt during those moments we realized how lucky we were. Lucky to still have our lives, or love, or our loved ones, or even just a shifted perspective. It’s in those moments of elation that perhaps we felt most seismically that we’ve been going about this all wrong.
Overall, We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong achieves what it endeavors. It’s not so much a complex, tightly developed thesis on the potential end of the world, like Cate Le Bon’s pandemic album Pompeii (2022), which weaves the present with a disastrous ancient history. Rather it’s much more interior—a soundscape of Van Etten’s personal emotional nooks and crannies, which can be just as powerful, and universal. [Read Erika Wolf’s Review]
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