Watch Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory play ‘Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)’ on ‘Fallon’

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Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory performed ‘Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this week – see the footage below.The song is taken from the recently formed group’s self-titled debut album, which was released on Friday (February 7) via Jagjaguwar.

The band comprises singer-songwriter Van Etten alongside drummer Jorge Balbi, bassist Devra Hoff and keyboardist Teeny Lieberson.The live performance went down on Thursday (February 6) and saw the band embrace the psych-fuelled heady rock energy of the album version.

Watch their appearance here:‘Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)’ was one of the album’s early singles and has been described by Van Etten as being about “trying to understand people with very different perspectives and backgrounds, while also trying to be compassionate towards our past, present, and future selves.”“After days of rehearsing the songs from the album and how to execute them live, I was getting tired of hearing myself.

I didn’t want to over rehearse the songs to death. And so, for the first time ever, I asked if the band just wanted to “jam,” play without it having to be something, to clear our heads.”The performance comes just weeks ahead of the group’s UK and European tour, which kicks off in Oslo on February 28 and will see them take in dates in London’s Royal Albert Hall, Manchester’s Albert Hall and Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom.