Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong

Sixth album from indie-rock maven Sharon Van Etten!

Pressed on marbled smoke-colored vinyl

Sharon Van Etten’s latest album We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong, is a tribute to how impossible and necessary it feels to care for each other. When it feels like the world’s ending, Van Etten still cares.

Van Etten has long known how to match stories of confusion, hurt or fear with a powerful, surefooted delivery, writes NPR; her songs sound like self-preservation even when they tell of self-doubt. Here, she turns her gaze towards the wreckage and offers a tribute to how impossible and necessary it feels to care, now and always, despite the sustained trauma of the past two years, both pandemically and politically.

In the face of climate catastrophe, systemic injustice, a global pandemic or other earth-shattering forces outside our control, does it even seem possible to nurture relationships with ourselves, our families and our communities?