On a recent sun-filled afternoon, I visited the musician Sharon Van Etten at her West Village apartment, a hushed refuge from the raucous city outside. She poured strong coffee from a French press, offered dark chocolate and walnuts, and sat down at her piano bench, where she sang “I Love You but I’m Lost,” from her forthcoming album, “Are We There.” As Sasha Frere-Jones writes of Van Etten’s music in this week’s issue, “the pleasure is all in the tone, a rich, physically grounded sound that seems to begin somewhere in her legs and to travel up through her body.” Watch her performance above.
//Sky Dylan Robbin – The New Yorker//
