The cover art for Sharon Van Etten’s sixth album shows her, clad fully in black with cropped hair, walking away from a scene that is somehow fantastical, apocalyptic, and mundane all at once. This image, released on April 6th, 2022, was all the world got by way of warning for this album – there were no singles released. I can think of no better solitary image that captures the ethos of We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong. Turns out, this was Van Etten’s plan all along. “I wanted to convey that [loss and growth] in an image with me walking away from it all,” she said, “not necessarily brave, not necessarily sad, not necessarily happy.” Since its inception, Van Etten intended the album to be listened to all at once – taken in from start to finish, letting every emotion have its day i...
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