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Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen

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The Wild Side of Sharon's Song

"I love all the wild. I mean I don't know what to call them but like all the squeals," she says of her new music. "Like it just feels like fireworks in a wild way." The song was originally recorded as half-time, with McKinsey playing bass drum pulse and then adding back beat. It has been reworked into more of an Americana style on this album.

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