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[...] Van Etten’s performance, while vastly more understated, might actually have represented the bigger breakthrough. She captivated with the smoky midtempo rocker “Serpents,” from her forthcoming third studio album (and first for Midwestern indie Jagjaguwar), Tramp, which comes out on February 7. The studio version features contributions from some indie-rock heavyweights — the National’s Aaron Dressner, Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner, the Walkmen’s Matt Barrick, and Doveman’s Thomas Bartlett — and it looks and sounds like at least a few of those folks were onstage with Van Etten again last night. A tour de force of a kind of music that’s easy to take for granted but hard to do this movingly, it’s an arresting preview of the New Jersey native’s latest record (via The Audio Perv). [...]

[...] Van Etten’s performance, while vastly more understated, might actually have represented the bigger breakthrough. She captivated with the smoky midtempo rocker “Serpents,” from her forthcoming third studio album (and first for Midwestern indie Jagjaguwar), Tramp, which comes out on February 7. The studio version features contributions from some indie-rock heavyweights — the National’s Aaron Dressner, Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner, the Walkmen’s Matt Barrick, and Doveman’s Thomas Bartlett — and it looks and sounds like at least a few of those folks were onstage with Van Etten again last night. A tour de force of a kind of music that’s easy to take for granted but hard to do this movingly, it’s an arresting preview of the New Jersey native’s latest record (via The Audio Perv). [...]

[...] If Sharon Van Etten is ever going to blow up, it will be with this record.  Her quiet 2009 debut got its fair share of love and a year later her more assertive sophomore effort gained her some more traction in indie circles, leading to her third album on her third label.  This one features a veritable rogues gallery of talent – Matt Barrick (Walkmen), Zach Condon (Beirut), Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak), Julianna Barwick and Aaron Dessner (the National) — but Van Etten has hardly given up creative control.  (You really ought to check out the performance of this song on Fallon.) [...]