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Sharon Van Etten, On tourIt's hard to imagine that anyone this year will write a relationship song quite as powerful as Sharon Van Etten's Give Out. Someone who writes from the heart, about the heart, Van Etten's current album Tramp is a bag of bones and raw nerves, but also a work of immense musicality and articulate angst, which reaches a peak in Give Out's untoppable hook: "You're the reason I'll move to the city/ Or why I'll need to leave…" There is, evidently, an autobiographical element ...

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