Van Etten, Sharon & The Attachment Theory - Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory Van Etten, Sharon & The Attachment Theory

If you’ve been a lifelong SVE worshipper, you’ll undoubtedly have beenblasting this one since release. But if you’d maybe lost your way with her in recent years, we’d urge you to pay attention again ‘coz this is Shazafully revived, restored, recharged and reminding us of what makes her such a standout artist of her generation.

With a fresh new name and her new theory attached, we get a vibrant, pulsing sound cut through with an emotional heft to match. Van Etten has rumbled and strummed her way straight into our hearts again. The songs are both more robust and complex, and more harmoniously poised in their simplicity, with the intoxicating instrumentation shifting between weightlessness and heftiness.Genuinely up there with some of the most affecting, most haunting and most exquisite work she’s ever recorded... and her live shows are also matching this pinnacle.