Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Principle carried out ‘Southern Life (What It Should Be Like)’ on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon this week – see the footage under.
The music is taken from the lately shaped group’s self-titled debut album, which was launched on Friday (February 7) by way of Jagjaguwar. The band contains singer-songwriter Van Etten alongside drummer Jorge Balbi, bassist Devra Hoff and keyboardist Teeny Lieberson.
The reside efficiency went down on Thursday (February 6) and noticed the band embrace the psych-fuelled heady rock vitality of the album model. Watch their look right here:
‘Southern Life (What It Should Be Like)’ was one of many album’s early singles and has been described by Van Etten as being about “making an attempt to know folks with very totally different views and backgrounds, whereas additionally making an attempt to be compassionate in direction of our previous, current, and future selves.”
“After days of rehearsing the songs from the album and how one can execute them reside, I used to be getting uninterested in listening to myself. I didn’t need to over rehearse the songs to demise. And so, for the primary time ever, I requested if the band simply needed to “jam,” play with out it having to be one thing, to clear our heads.”
The efficiency comes simply weeks forward of the group’s UK and European tour, which kicks off in Oslo on February 28 and can see them absorb dates in London’s Royal Albert Corridor, Manchester’s Albert Corridor and Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom. See right here for the total checklist of dates and right here for any remaining tickets.
Van Etten lately spoke to NME concerning the night time in 2022 when she requested her backing band to jam throughout rehearsals, which finally led to the formation of her new full-band moniker. She defined that there was one thing concerning the alchemy of that second that left her felling “very seen, heard, impressed”.
“That made me need to push myself,” she added. “It sounds foolish on the floor, however I’d by no means felt that means earlier than.”
Van Etten launched her sixth and newest solo album, ‘We’ve Been Going About This All Unsuitable’, in Could 2022. In 2023, she shared ‘Quiet Eyes’ from the Previous Lives soundtrack and the Courtney Barnett co-written single ‘Shut To You’.
