Zach wraps up this week’s conversation on Tramp with a healthy dose of criticism. AudioVole’s therapist says this is expected behavior and that “sh*t can’t be fun and flowers all the time.” We’re going to have to ask to see his license.
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Before Sarah sat down to respond to Zach, she whiled away her second consecutive night at a Jeff Mangum concert. She then proceeded to read Tramp in the light of An Aeroplane Over the Sea, which seems unfair. For those of you keeping track, AudioVole has now compared Sharon Van Etten’s Tramp to Bob Dylan going electric and An Aeroplane Over the Sea. She’s actually fairing pretty well, all things considered.
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Tramp is the first Sharon Van Etten album that does justice to her strengths as a singer and songwriter, says Zach Evans, before wondering if her new sound is akin to Dylan going electric. Really? We’re comparing Sharon Van Etten to Bob Dylan, now? Congrats, Sharon! AudioVole has just put you in some rarified company!
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Long time, no Sarah on AudioVole. That’s changing right…now! She would normally be excited to write a funny little blurb here but all of the listening to Sharon Van Etten has made “excitement” seem like an unworthy emotion available only to those who have never experienced heartbreak. And tweens. Anyway, read what she has to say about SVE’s new album, Tramp, and come back tomorrow to get Zach Evan’s take.
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So, AudioVole’s back after a too long hiatus, and wouldn’t you know it, our first victim is everyone’s first victim of 2012! Miss Lana Del Rey. Here’s the twisted irony of the whole damn thing: in decrying the public’s focus on everything LDR except her music, Ross and Brandon come out of the gate with one of AudioVole’s longest ever dialectics in which they spend maybe 150 words total actually talking about her new album, Born to Die. Sorry, Lana.
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