Sharon Van Etten – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Sharon Van Etten – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:50 minutes | 962 MB | Genre: Shoegaze, Indie Rock
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From the off, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory is sonically different from Van Etten’s previous work. Writing and recording in total collaboration with her band for the first time, Van Etten finds the freedom that comes by letting go – letting go of her normal modus operandi or the need for control or attachment to the outcome. No safety net. It’s somewhat terrifying, but also liberating. The result of that liberation is an exhilarating new dimension of sound and songwriting. The themes are timeless, classic Sharon – life and living, love and being loved – but the sounds are new, wholly realized and sharp as glass.As the name suggests, this album—lucky number seven—is the first time Sharon Van Etten has written and recorded in full collaboration with her band: drummer Jorge Balbi, bassist Devra Hoff and keyboardist/singer Teeny Lieberson. It came about when, during tour rehearsal, Van Etten acted on a whim: “For the first time in my life I asked the band if we could just jam,” she has said. Two songs came together in an hour, and a whole new creature was born. Indeed, Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory really doesn’t feel like a singer-songwriter with a mere backing band. More than ever, she’s leaning into the synth work that helped shape 2019’s excellent Remind Me Tomorrow—albeit with a darker lens and, apparently, thinking about death. “Will you see me in the afterlife?/ Will you tell me what you think it’s like/ Come and tell me it’ll be alright?” Van Etten sings on “Afterlife,” roaming among fuzzed-out beats and glistening but slightly warped synth; taken as a whole, it conjures both The xx and Bonnie Tyler. White noise and doom synth combine forces on “Live Forever.” Some luscious, tempting undertow pulls at the heart of “Trouble” (“All the trouble I’ll get you in, uh huh”), a goth-pop cloud that serves as a reminder that Van Etten was a favorite of David Lynch, who cast her as a barroom chanteuse in Twin Peaks: The Return. “Idiot Box,” meanwhile, takes a frustrated view of more earthbound ills, using crisp snare and a New Romantic synth sweep to lament how phones have replaced television as the new timesuck: “All the skin against the glass/ All these things we think we lack/ All this time we can’t get back … Let’s go!” Van Etten yelps, trying to break through the masses’ somnambulism. (It ends with a dare to lurking trolls: “Everyone on the idiot box/ Come on outside, let me hear those thoughts.”) “I Can’t Imagine (Why You Feel This Way)” is spaced-out synth pop with a slippery, funk-bass groove. Irresistible “Indio” is a caffeinated bop. And “I Want You Here” throbs and thrums; as Van Etten takes the titular line from a hushed prayer to desperation, she seems to summon the power of Annie Lennox—appropriate, since the album was recorded at Eurhythmics’ former London studio, The Church. But the big thrill here is “Southern Life (What It Must Be Like),” a trippy, heavy slab of psych-rock that comes on like some cross of Jane’s Addiction and Echo & the Bunnymen. – Shelly Ridenour

Tracklist:

1-1. Sharon Van Etten – Live Forever (05:39)
1-2. Sharon Van Etten – Afterlife (04:08)
1-3. Sharon Van Etten – Idiot Box (04:10)
1-4. Sharon Van Etten – Trouble (05:00)
1-5. Sharon Van Etten – Indio (02:47)
1-6. Sharon Van Etten – I Can’t Imagine (Why You Feel This Way) (03:06)
1-7. Sharon Van Etten – Somethin’ Ain’t Right (04:24)
1-8. Sharon Van Etten – Southern Life (What It Must Be Like) (03:48)
1-9. Sharon Van Etten – Fading Beauty (06:14)
1-10. Sharon Van Etten – I Want You Here (06:29)

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