Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten, and her first album with her group the Attachment Theory. It was released through Jagjaguwar on February 7, 2025, and was met with positive critical reception.
Composition and style.
"Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory" is a rock album. "The Independent" wrote that some of the material was haunting and vocally, "her voice descend[ed] in Siouxsie Sioux swoops on the chorus of “Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)”".
Release and reception.
"Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory" was released on February 7, 2025, through Jagjaguwar. It is Van Etten's seventh album, and follows "We've Been Going About This All Wrong" (2022).
According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory received "universal acclaim" based on a weighted average score of 83 out of 100 from 19 critic scores. John Amen of "No Depression" wrote that the album "captures [the] band at its most expressive and [Van Etten] at her most flexible, alternately immersed in her experience and bequeathing wisdom from a detached perspective". He concluded, "There may still be demons dancing around or even inside Van Etten, but they no longer call the shots".