7 February 2025
Renowned Brooklyn-based songstress (one of my favorite voices of the past years)
Sharon Van Etten has her 7th LP, named SHARON VAN ETTEN & THE ATTACHMENT THEORY .
It’s the first album which credits her band, named
for the occasion, The Attachment Theory.
Van Etten: “For the first time in my life I asked the band if we could just jam.
Words that have never come out of my mouth – ever! But I loved all the sounds
we were getting. I was curious – what would happen? In an hour we wrote two
songs that ended up becoming “I Can’t Imagine” and “Southern Life”.
“Sometimes it’s exciting, sometimes it’s scary, sometimes you feel stuck. It’s like every day feels a little different – just being at peace with whatever you’re feeling and whoever you are and how you relate to people in that moment. If I can just keep a sense of openness while knowing that my feelings change every day, that is all I can do right now. That and try to be the best person I can be while letting other people be who they are and not taking it personally and just being. I’m not there, but I’m trying to be there every day.”
Album artwork
UNCUT Magazine says: “Enjoying a kind of midlife techno-goth glow-up,
on tracks “Idiot Box” and the incendiary “Indio” coming on like a female
fronted Future Islands or Pat Benatar joining Curve.”
TUTV: Sonically, Van Etten‘s most vigorous record to date. At times Van Etten
rocks out (Idiot Box / Indio / I Can’t Imagine (Why You Feel This Way) / Somethin’ Ain’t Right)
as she had never done before, with the help of the zealous Attachment Theory band.
Overall the sound is more puissant, more dynamic, more sinewy than on her previous work, with waves of synths, firm percussion and buzzy guitar electrification. You can feel the joie de vivre at work here. Never a dull moment. Only solid gold songs.
Next to the three topflight singles, the closing track is the magical highlight. An almost
7-minute, melodramatic piece of bone-chilling music that makes the hair in your neck stand up. A masterly vocal tour de force. A majestic end of a majestic album. Simply her best. Splendiferous.
SINGLES: Afterlife / Southern Life (What It Must Be Like?) / Trouble
– AFTERLIFE –
– SOUTHERN LIFE –
– TROUBLE –
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