Sharon Van Etten has introduced a brand new single referred to as ‘Afterlife’ – take a look at the teaser clips under.
The New Jersey singer-songwriter started signalling her return final week by sharing a collection of posts on social media. She posted two black-and-white photos soundtracked by a pulsing synth line.
Later, Van Etten uploaded footage from her intimate present at London’s 100 Membership this summer season. “Coming quickly,” she wrote because the caption.
The musician has now revealed one other preview snippet of recent materials on-line, confirming a observe titled ‘Afterlife’. It’s due for launch subsequent Wednesday (October 23) – pre-save/pre-add right here.
The forthcoming music is credited as Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Principle – a moniker that was launched at her latest gigs. It was given its dwell debut in London this July. Try the posts under.
Since enjoying her small gig within the capital – which marked her first dwell look in over a yr – Van Etten has carried out a present at The Viper Room in Los Angeles, California and supported Mitski on the Hollywood Bowl.
In a publish earlier this month, Van Etten wrote: “I beloved each minute of reconnecting with my band and followers and enjoying two very particular reveals at The Hollywood Bowl alongside Mitski and The Viper Room, in a extra intimate setting.
“Two very totally different performances that made my coronary heart miss the stage and being one with the followers once more.”
Van Etten launched her sixth and newest studio album, ‘We’ve Been Going About This All Improper’, in Could 2022. Final yr, she shared ‘Quiet Eyes’ from the Previous Lives soundtrack and the Courtney Barnett co-written single ‘Shut To You’.
She signed a world publishing cope with Warner Chappell Music in the beginning of this yr (through Music Week).
Final December, Van Etten’s observe ‘Quiet Eyes’ was shortlisted for Greatest Authentic Track on the Oscars 2024. The award in the end went to Billie Eilish and Finneas for ‘What Was I Made For?’ from Barbie.
In a evaluation of ‘We’ve Been Going About This All Improper’, NME wrote: “Standout ‘Errors’ is Van Etten at her greatest, its thumping refrain supreme for banishing lockdown-induced rumination in your regrets […]
“Though it lacks the immediacy of 2018’s hookier ‘Remind Me Tomorrow’, this unyielding document is, at occasions, a robust reckoning with the age of uncertainty.”
You may revisit a video interview with Sharon Van Etten for NME‘s ‘In Dialog’ collection above.
