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Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen

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How to Make Music With Friends

I remember someone said can you turn the velociraptor down a little bit? I don't think I turned it down though. The piano was recorded as sort of a harmonic guide for the band and it was something that we maybe weren't even sure if we were going to use. There is a funny thing that happens whenever you have all this alien texture surrounding something that's very sort of pedestrian and almost sort of working class. It gives like a lot of gravitas to both sounds. One of my favorite things about the process for this record was that I didn't want to bring my musicians in for a change. So he brought in all the musicians and I walk in and they

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