Sharon Van Etten is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her fourth album, Are We There, with a special edition that will be out on Friday, May 31 via Jagjaguwar. The release will be accompanied by an ‘Every Time the Sun Comes Up’ 7”, which features an alternative version of the song as well as one performed live at the Sydney Opera House. Listen to the alternate rendition below.
“This version of ‘Every Time the Sun Comes Up’ developed as the band and I were really honing our sound,” Van Etten explained in a statement. “We were rehearsing for the We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong Tour, leaning into some of our influences to give the song a more current feel to where we were all creatively at the time. We performed it live and the audience really responded to our new Joy Division-like spin on it. We had the idea to release it to celebrate the Are We There 10-year anniversary and breathe new life into it, which feels like the perfect time.”
“The whole time I was making Are We There, I was commuting to Hobo Sound from an apartment in the city, and I took a train to the bus station and walked from the Lincoln tunnel to the studio in Weehawken, NJ,” she added. “Making this record, my bandmates (Doug Keith, Heather Woods Broderick, and Zeke Hutchins) quickly became my family, and I realized I sought refuge in the studio. It was where I felt nurtured. It felt like home. I was able to find myself and I feel like that vulnerability and strength was captured through the collaborations on this album. The name of this album represents, for me, a place I departed from but with an acknowledgment that I haven’t yet arrived.”
