Sharon Van Etten has announced new music. As Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory, the singer-songwriter and her band will release their self-titled debut album on February 7 via Jagjaguwar. They’ve also shared gothically romantic lead single “Afterlife,” with an accompanying video that finds Van Etten looking not unlike goth icon Siouxsie Sioux. Watch it below.
Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory was written and recorded collaboratively with Van Etten’s bandmates—percussionist Jorge Balbi, bassist Devra Hoff, and multi-instrumentalist Teeny Lieberson. “For the first time in my life I asked the band if we could just jam,” Van Etten said in a press statement. “Words that have never come out of my mouth—ever! But I loved all the sounds we were getting.” The album was produced and engineered by Björk and Bon Iver collaborator Marta Salogni.
In 2025, Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory will hit the road for a series of European shows, supported by Nabihah Iqbal. Scroll down to see the full list of dates.
Van Etten’s last album, We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong, came out in 2022. Since then, she has duetted with Lonnie Holley, Michael Imperioli, and Courtney Barnett. She’s also reissued 2012’s Tramp and 2013’s Are We There.
Revisit Madison Bloom’s profile of the New Jersey singer-songwriter, “Sharon Van Etten Is an Institution Now.”
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Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory:
01 Live Forever
02 Afterlife
03 Idiot Box
04 Trouble
05 Indio
06 I Can’t Imagine (Why You Feel This Way)
07 Somethin’ Ain’t Right
08 Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)
09 Fading Beauty
10 I Want You Here
Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory:
02-28 Oslo, Norway – Rockefeller *
03-01 Stockholm, Sweden – Fållan *
03-02 Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega *
03-04 Berlin, Germany – Astra Kulturhaus *
03-06 Paris, France – Le Trianon *
03-07 Antwerp, Belgium – De Roma *
03-08 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso *
03-10 London, England – Royal Albert Hall *
03-11 Manchester, England – Albert Hall *
03-12 Glasgow, Scotland – Barrowland Ballroom *
* with Nabihah Iqbal
