Sharon Van Etten for Wider Than Pictures Dublin show
Sharon Van Etten and her band The Attachment Theory play Dublin Thursday, 21st August 2025 at National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks.
After Father John Misty was added to Wider Than Pictures last week, Singular Artists have announced the New York songwriter and artist for the series next summer.
The show will feature songs from their new album, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory as well as songs from across Sharon’s catalogue with the band.
‘Afterlife’ is the band’s excellent first single from the album:
Tickets from €54.35 plus fees on sale Friday, 13th December at 10am from ticketmaster.ie and singularartists.ie.
Register for exclusive pre-sale.
A second single ‘Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)’ was released last week.
From the off, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory is sonically different from Van Etten’s previous work. Writing and recording in total collaboration with her band for the first time, Van Etten finds the freedom that comes by letting go. The result of that liberation is an exhilarating new dimension of sound and songwriting. The themes are timeless, classic Sharon – life and living, love and being loved – but the sounds are new, wholly realized and sharp as glass.
Reflecting on this new artistic frame of mind, Van Etten muses, “Sometimes it’s exciting, sometimes it’s scary, sometimes you feel stuck. 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.”
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory presents an exhilarating new dimension of Van Etten’s sound and songwriting. For the first time, it was written and recorded in total collaboration with her band — Jorge Balbi (drums, machines), Devra Hoff (bass, vocals), and Teeny Lieberson (synth, piano, guitar, vocals) — allowing Van Etten the freedom that comes by letting go. The themes are timeless, classic Sharon, but the sounds are new, wholly realized and sharp as glass.
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory release Self-Titled Debut Album, Out February 7th Via Jagjaguwar.
