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Oct 23, 2024 By Mark Redfern Photography by Devin Oktar Yalkin

Sharon Van Etten has announced a new album written and recorded with her backing band, The Attachment Theory, and they have shared its first single, “Afterlife,” via a music video. They have also announced some EU and UK tour dates. Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory is due out February 7, 2025 via Jagjaguwar. Check out “Afterlife” below, followed by the album’s tracklist and cover artwork, as well as the tour dates.

The Attachment Theory is Jorge Balbi (drums, machines), Devra Hoff (bass, vocals), and Teeny Lieberson (synth, piano, guitar, vocals). While they have previously backed Van Etten on some of her solo work, this was the first time that the singer/songwriter/guitarist wrote and recorded an album in full collaboration with the band.

“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?” says Van Etten in a press release. “In an hour we wrote two songs that ended up becoming ‘I Can’t Imagine’ and ‘Southern Life.’”

Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory was recorded at The Church, Eurythmics’ former studio in London, and was produced by Marta Salogni (Björk, Bon Iver, Animal Collective, Mica Levi).

Susu Laroche directed the “Afterlife” video, which features footage of the band debuting some of the album’s songs in London’s iconic 100 Club during the recording of the album.

“Sometimes it’s exciting, sometimes it’s scary, sometimes you feel stuck,” Van Etten says of fully collaborating with her band on the album. “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.”

Van Etten was on the cover of our My Favorite Movie issue.

Van Etten’s most recent album was We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong, which was released in May 2022 and landed on our Top 100 Albums of 2022 list. A deluxe edition of the album was released in November 2022.

Read our review of We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong here.

Read our in-depth interview with Sharon Van Etten on 2019’s Remind Me Tomorrow and check out our exclusive photo shoot with her.

Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory Tracklist:

1. Live Forever
2. Afterlife
3. Idiot Box
4. Trouble
5. Indio
6. I Can’t Imagine (Why You Feel This Way)
7. Somethin’ Ain’t Right
8. Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)
9. Fading Beauty
10. I Want You Here

Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory Tour Dates:

Fri. Feb. 28 - Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller *
Sat. Mar. 1 - Stockholm, SE @ Fållan *
Sun. Mar. 2 - Copenhagen, DK @ Vega *
Tue. Mar. 4 - Berlin, DE @ Astra Kulturhaus *
Thu. Mar. 6 - Paris, FR @ Le Trianon *
Fri. Mar. 7 - Antwerp, BE @ De Roma *
Sat. Mar. 8 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso *
Mon. Mar. 10 - London, UK @ Royal Albert Hall *
Tue. Mar. 11 - Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall *
Wed. Mar. 12 - Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland Ballroom *

* with special guest Nabihah Iqbal

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