Sharon Van Etten Are We There

SHARON VAN ETTEN ARE WE THERE Afraid of Nothing Taking Chances For all the attention that was paid to her 2012 break-through Tramp , Sharon Van Etten is an artist Your Love is Killing Me with a hunger to turn another corner and to delve deeper, writing from a place of honesty and Our Love vulnerability to create a bond with the listener that few contemporary musicians can match. Tarifa I Love You But I'm Lost Compelled by a restless spirit, Van Etten is continuously challenging herself. Now, the result is Are You Know Me Well We There , a self-produced album of exceptional intimacy, sublime generosity, and immense breadth. Break Me Nothing Will Change Most musicians are quite happy to leave the production end of things to someone else. It’s enough I Know to live your music without taking on the role of producer as well. Yet Van Etten knew it was time to Every Time the Sun Comes Up make a record entirely on her terms. The saying goes “fortune favors the bold” and yet this boldness had to be tempered. For this, Van Etten found a kindred spirit in veteran music producer Stewart CATALOG #: JAG255 Lerman. Originally working together on Boardwalk Empire, they gently moved into new roles, RELEASE DATE : MAY 27, 2014 rallying around the idea of making a record together in Lerman’s studio in New Jersey. Lerman’s FORMAT: CD/LP/DIGITAL studio expertise gave Van Etten the freedom to make Are We There the way she imagined. Van Etten CD BOX LOT: 30 also enlisted the individual talents of her band, consisting of Heather Woods Broderick, Doug Keith LP BOX LOT: 28 and Zeke Hutchins, and brought in friends Dave Hartley and Adam Granduciel from The War on GENRE: AVANT FOLK/INDIE ROCK Drugs, Jonathan Meiberg (Shearwater), Jana Hunter (Lower Dens), Peter Broderick, Mackenzie KEY MARKETS : NEW YORK CITY, BROOKLYN, Scott (Torres), Stuart Bogie, Jacob C. Morris and Mickey Freeze. PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON, CHICAGO, AUSTIN, LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, SEATTLE, PORTLAND It is clear from the opening chords in the first song, Afraid of Nothing, that we are witnessing a new awareness, a sign of Van Etten in full stride, writing, producing and performing from a place that CD NOT AVAILABLE TO JAPAN, KOREA, seems almost mythical, were it not so touchable and real. Always direct, and never shying away even HONG KONG, TAIWAN from the most personally painful narratives, Van Ettten’s songwriting continues to evolve. Many of VINYL NOT RETURNABLE the songs deal with seemingly impossible decisions, anticipation, and then resolution. She sings of the nature of desire, memory, of being lost, emptiness, of promises and loyalty, fear and change, of healing and the true self, violence and sanctuary, waiting, of silence. The artist who speaks in such a CD UPC: 656605225524 voice is urging us to do something, to take hold and to go deeper. Living in this way, the questions of life remain alive, as close and steady as breathing. Many of the ballads of old are as dark as pitch, and people for whom the issues of life and death were as vivid as flame wrote them. You could turn 6 56605 22552 4 off the electricity, remove all the instruments and Sharon’s voice and words would remain. They connect her to the mystic stratum which flows just beneath the everyday, which is rarely LP UPC: 656605225517 acknowledged as the forces of distraction sweep our attention away. 6 56605 22551 7 DIGITAL UPC: 656605225562 SELLING POINTS 1. Sharon Van Etten's 2012 break-through album Tramp has scanned over 42k to date. 6 56605 22556 2 2. Comprehensive national touring is planned for the duration of the campaign. Robust noncom AAA and CMJ radio campaigns are in the works. COLORED LP UPC: 656605225531 3. Posters are available and a sticker with press quotes will be on the retail edition of the album. A portion of the first pressing is limited edition clear vinyl. 6 56605 22553 1 EXCLUSIVELY DISTRIBUTED BY SC DISTRIBUTION PHONE: (812) 335-1572 / FAX: (888) 678-0167 US DOMESTIC SALES CONTACT SHELLY WESTERHAUSEN 1499 WEST SECOND STREET SHELLY SCDISTRIBUTION.COM < @ > BLOOMINGTON, IN 47403 INTERNATIONAL SALES CONTACT KRAEGAN GRAVES WWW.JAGJAGUWAR.COM <KRAEGAN @SCDISTRIBUTION.COM >.

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