“From its opening notes, "Give Out" is Sharon Van Etten at her most potent. A downcast tone hovers over restrained guitar strums, and at the song's heart is the intense and unsettlingly frank emotion that has made her two previous records so wholly gripping. Van Etten has spoken widely about her social anxiety. As her choir-like bits of self-analysis on "Give Out" grow into mantras, they are both d”
