The songwriter turns her electro-art rock with band a few times too often around her own axis.
“Who Wants to Live Forever?” Asks Sharon van Etten several times right at the beginning of Sharon van Etten & The Attachment Theory. “It does not matter,” said her – mantra -repeated, increasingly theatrical – answer. Synthesizer sequences rotate and condense into a slow-motion crescendo. The synth-wave sound and the repetition of “Live Forever” indicate the thrust of van etens band debut.
Pieces in Jam sessions were created for the first time-a novelty for the songwriter. And a plausible explanation of why the most electronic album by van Etten likes to turn around himself: Jammen jam together needs a flow, sudden breaks do not work. So singing melodies, synth motifs, drum beats pull their circles again and again.
At least stylistically, the Vanette formation affords a few outliers: After the electropical start, the indie rock anthem “Idiot Box” raises uplifting Arcade Fire feeling and “i can’t imagine (why you feel this way) “Grooved the talking head of the dance rock. “Somethin ‘Ain’t Right” sails through the cosmos on herb rock traces. However, all pressure evaporates towards the end when van Etten and colleagues are stuck in elegiac art pop. Jamen is fun, no question! Sometimes but more for those involved than for outsiders.
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