Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory is the singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten's seventh studio album and the first collaborative effort with her band the Attachment Theory. I get a little teary eyed reminiscing of the earlier days when I first started listening to Sharon Van Etten and she was just an opener for Brooklyn pals The Antlers.

It has been a fun ride watching the evolution of her career beginning with her self released CDs. Always making music the way she wants and never swaying too far from her roots creatively constantly collaborating artist friends and colleagues. Friday evening's (May 9) show was a beautifully woven culmination of Van Etten’s catalogue alongside her newest phase of her career musically making for a quite incendiary experience.

A recent friend shared with me about a grief quilt she’s working on and I couldn’t helping thinking of a parallel between such a project and an evening’s setlist. Sometimes grief doesn’t always mean sad and sometimes as artists we need an outlet to articulate those feelings united together. I feel like I experienced Sharon Van Etten’s grief quilt that evening and it was beautiful.

 

Setlist:
Live Forever
Afterlife
Idiot Box
Comeback Kid
I Can’t Imagine (why you feel this way)
Somethin’ Ain’t Right
Southern Life (what It must be like)
Trouble
No Ones Easy to Love
Anything
Every time the Sun Comes up
Hands
Tarifa
Seventeen 
I want you here

Encore:
I wish I knew
Fading Beauty