Sharon Van Etten and The Attachment Theory

Full Performance, KCRW Live.
A masterpiece. Hard to tell which songs I prefere:
Live Forever, Afterlife, Idiot Box, Trouble, I Can't Imagine (Why You Feel This Way), Somethin' Ain't Right, Southern Life (What It Must Be Like), Fading Beauty, I Want You Here.

My today's song

Bon Iver singing the heartbreaking song Love More with his friend and the song composer Sharon Van Etten.
SO touching, SO beautiful.

Don't Do It, a take two

This was my yesterday's song.
It was posted 1stly here
Sharon said to KEXP: "I definitely wrote it with people in mind. Suicide is obviously immediate. People that have mental health issues, that don't take care of themselves or don't know how to, or don't know how to reach out for help, and how helpless they are and how helpless you feel as a friend. ... Even though sometimes I get embarrassed of how, when you just look at lyrics on a page without the music, I'm like, 'if you want to do it, you want to do it, even if I don't want you to.' Like, alone looking at those lyrics, I get embarrassed. But a lot of it is the emotion behind it that makes it feel that much more tangible, and maybe elusive at the same time. It's still a complex thought, to be honest."

Serpents, the official video 11 years after

"Serpents" is Sharon Van Etten's song I like most. I went to the festival Nos Alive on the day 11 of July 2019 mostly to watch Sharon singing this song. It's a brilliant song about a very uncomfortable feeling of anger and Sharon herself didn't feel comfortable when she watched what should be the official video of this song. Only now the video is available by the re-release of the album Tramp, or its 11th (delayed 10th) Anniversary Edition.

Epic 10, from an artist born 20 years later.

Sharon had this brilliant decision of celebrating the 10th anniversary of Epic, her wonderful 2nd album, inviting several artists to cover her songs. The result is just beautiful. 

I use to say that Sharon Van Etten was born 20 years later. She's a genius but I feel sorry to testify that most of her public is older than her and if her music was made 10 or 20 years earlier, she'd be a gigantic artist.

Effectively I was waiting for a nice video with Courtney Barnett's tribute to make this post. I usually don't post twice in one day, I hate to take peoples's precious time. But once this fantastic last video below came out JUST one hour ago, I had to anticipate this post about this 10th Anniversary.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did :)

Do you realize?

Almost hidden from the public, this is a beautiful cover by Sharon Van Etten, from the Flaming Lips original, posted HERE.

Yes, Sharon is a beautiful person, an amazing artist and one of the most important revelations from the last decade.
Hard to think she was so close to go away as she sings in "Don't do it". She recovered very well and she even supported Sounds of Saving as we could watch in THIS POST.

But, please, be my guest and restart this last video and watch the entire session recorded on 25th March 2011, almost 10 years ago
(not on 20th of April as written on YouTube).

KoM, the pleasure of sharing Sharon

If there's an artist that we discovered and always loved to share, is Sharon Van Etten. The 1st post with her was made by Val on 2012, when she started to be known worldwide, this blog was already 4 years old.
Here's Let Go, Sharon's last song:

And let's remind some other monuments from her. Cheers!

hurt

covered by Sharon

to my dearest friend

Happy Birthday, Vallie :}

Sharon, Sharon, Sharon,

Sharon

Sharon at Twin Peaks

g'day :}

in the ocean ...

in repeat

and again and again

gawd, how I love this song!

Sharon forever

Sharon, name of passion

Have a great Sunday :)

more

afraid of nothing

have a perfect weekend :}

just ... shut up and have a good time :]

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