Loud And Quiet
The first interview with the two iconic songwriters about their new collaboration
“Well, it was cloudy this morning,” grins Sharon Van Etten, under a bright blue sky in Los Angeles, commiserating the Zoom screen that faces her across the Atlantic, framed gracelessly by a rainy London evening. Angel Olsen joins a few minutes later from her place in Asheville, the small talk traversing New York to LA, how there’s no real Manhattan on the East side and how the downtown’s weird. When your own American geography has been learned vicariously through Brooklyn-based sitcoms, the non-homogeneity of the States can still elicit a strange coming-to-terms.