Her voice is mesmerizing, and the music she builds around it grows more spellbinding with each release, but what really sells Sharon Van Etten’s songs are the lyrics. Are We There is full of brutally honest statements about how impossible human life gets sometimes. “I need you to be afraid of nothing.” “Burn my skin so I can’t feel you.” Even her humor cuts deep: “People say I’m a one-hit wonder, but what happens when I have two? I washed your dishes, but I shit in your bathroom.” –Chris [LISTEN]