Tegan and Sara debuted their pulsating newsingleBoyfriendTuesday on The Tonight Show.The duo harmonized atoptinnypercussion about the pain ofsecret relationships.
The performance came one day after the bands May 9th show at New York Citys Le Poisson Rouge, which capped off a trio of American dates. Tegan and Sara will commence a 40-date,headlining North American touron September 9th in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Boyfriend is the lead single from Tegan and Saras eighth studio album, Love You to Death, out June 3rd. Last month, the duo unveiled the tracks lighthearted video, which finds the sisters satirizing at the glamour of a pop video shoot.
Singer-songwriter Sara Quin told Rolling Stone that Boyfriend emerged through a conscious challenge to write more straightforward pop. Producer Greg Kurstin encouraged the band to re-approach the instrumentation to find the rightversion. He had to part that cloud for me, Quin said. I was stuck on my original arrangement, but then it was suddenly like, Oh shit, this could be a single.'