Sharon Van etten tries a new role: team player

Sharon van etten Is it not the author of songs that combines with the group. She always had an incomprehensible trick to make you feel lonely in the dark with your songs, even when you hear them in the mid -day light or sing them with a crowd. Who else would start the album with the line “sitting in the bar, I told you everything”, and then follow him “You said” Holy Shit “? Since her oldest Indy Folk days, she knows how to transform any room on a lonely place on the ground.

So for her a bold move to try another musical role: one of the groups. She even calls an album after her new quartet, Sharon van etten and the theory of affection. It is her most focused music -oriented music, for the first time it consists of a jamming with other musicians. He is greatly impressive from the discovery “Live Forever”, with a blatant synt-pop-pulse when she begs, again and again: “Who wants to live forever?” And all, he has an emotionally fierce force that Van etten has always delivered, even when it was only she and acoustic guitar.

Such cooperation is not easy for the artist -Confession, so at home alone. “I am inclined to write from a therapeutic place,” Van etten Rolling Stone said in 2022. I’ll go out. “

The theory of attachment deepen into a synthesis heavy sound that it has interfered since 2019 Remind me tomorrowThe album, where she translated her catartic story to a giant rock -Bombast, without losing the intimate power of her voice. This is a propelled, with an extremely vinyl clap of the electro-burghta, which control the blow. Still he has indi-falsh-ballads, as early as early precious stones like Swamp and EpicThe style she improved decades ago with her skillful work We are there. The songs sound deeper and darker, the more you listen.

“Idiot Box” is a cluster, an insurmountable hymn synthesizer, where she watches how drug addicts trade their lives flesh and blood for the existence of a zombie look at the screens. “All this skin is against glass,” she sings. “All these things we think we are missing / we won’t return all this time.” In her voice there is so much urgency (with a smart arcade fire style “Let’s go!”)

Van etten has always had a fetish for the eighties electric-hours, but she is really surprised here, Siusi, Kate Bush, Boui and Enos all over the groove. It is dominated by the new Teeny Lieberson keyboardist, which is obviously a huge fan of Depeche regime. This is the greatest impact of music here, especially the shine of middle age Black celebration. The connection is deep – the last album of Marta Solangi Engineered Depeche Mode, Mori memento.

You can hear that Van etten is someone with pleasure playing a democratic combo and also new enough in it. (Naming your “attachment theory” group simply shouting the name of the first band.) She always had perfect players, returning to the national Tramp, But she is a team player now. Rhythm -Section gathered for her last album, surprisingly review, but excellent 2022 We’re not all thatwith peaks as “dark”, “born” and “far”. Defra Hoff adds your liquid bass comment by giving the entire album the Hedgir-The stream of singer and musicians who think aloud together when the songs spill.

Chemistry works miracles in “I do not imagine (why you feel in this way”, a postpoo-discounteer with the touch of blond and delta 5, or “something wrong”, with his new order of the guitar floor and prosperity of the hooks “The same thing as once” .

All over the album, Van etten sounds rejuvenated by a sense of new risks and harassing new sound adventures that take place in the melody. The “problem” summarizes him in a sluggish groove somewhere between flitwood poppy and conversations. She thinks about the danger of taking a romantic immersion, tasteing “all the problems I got you.” When she sings, “All these stories I can’t tell/ water versions of my own.” But about nothing watering The theory of attachmentY-Even with the Spirit is still on the deck, the voice of Sharon Van etten comes out through the loud and clear.