Sharon Van Etten to livestream performance of her debut album ‘because i was in love’

nme.com:

"I thought it'd be meaningful to play it live the way it was conceived" Sharon Van Etten has announced a livestream performance of her 2009 debut album ‘because i was in love’ in full.

Van Etten made the announcement on Twitter yesterday (May 21), a week ahead of the 11th anniversary of the record’s release. “I wrote my debut album, ‘because i was in love’, in a sort of self-imposed quarantine –– alone with a guitar in my parents’ basement,” she wrote. “With the album’s anniversary approaching, I thought it’d be meaningful to play it live the way it was conceived.” I wrote my debut album, ‘because i was in love’, in a sort of self-imposed quarantine –– alone with a guitar in my parents' basement.