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If heaven is a place on Earth, its official soundtrack has just been announced… Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory’s debut album has just been announced, accompanied by brand new single Afterlife. Conceived of in the Yucca Valley desert, and recorded with producer Marta Salogni (Björk, Bon Iver) during a musical pilgrimage to England this year, this is our beloved songwriter first ever band album. With the songs here written in collaboration with band members Jorge Balbi on percussion and electronics, bassist Devra Hoff, and multi-instrumentalist Teeny Lieberson, Van Etten says it felt like a whole new experience. “Creatively, for me, this is a big change because I have never been able to let go in this way before with a band or on a record.” Arriving on February 7th, 2025, through the reliably excellent Jagjaguwar, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory is a thrilling new era in an already stellar career. “The Attachment Theory, to me, is meant to reflect how we all come from very different places, with different backgrounds and experiences, but have somehow found each other and come together on common ground to meet each other where we are in order to make something that transcends our space and time. - Flying Out

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. 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.

Reflecting on this new artistic frame of mind, Van Etten muses, “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.” Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory is a quantum leap in that direction.

Tracklist

Live Forever
Afterlife
Idiot Box
Trouble
Indio
I Can’t Imagine (Why You Feel This Way)
Somethin’ Ain’t Right
Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)
Fading Beauty
I Want You Here

SHARON VAN ETTEN - Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory