After almost four years, singer-songwriter Noah Kahan has announced that he’ll be releasing his brand new album The Great Divide on April 24.
Produced by ‘Stick Season’ collaborator Gabe Simon and Aaron Dessner, the album looks set to reflect on Noah’s past, complicated relationships, plus the disconnect and distance that silence and unspoken truths create between people.
Taking to social media, Noah delighted fans with news about his fourth record and went into more detail about the inspiration behind his new body of work. “From a long silence forms a divide, a great expanse demanding attention. I stare across it. I see old friends, my father, my mother, my siblings, my younger self, the great state of Vermont. I want to scream these feelings, to gesticulate wildly at the figures on the other side, but my voice has grown hoarse and muted after years of climbing a ladder towards the wild, spiraling dreams that have materialized in front of me.
“Instead, I wrote them down next to a piano in Nashville, next to a pond in Guilford Vermont, in a legendary studio in upstate New York, on a farm with a firetower in Only, Tennessee. The songs are the words I would say if I could. They are the fears I dance with in the moments before I drift off to sleep. The music here is my best attempt to delve deeper into the people, places, and feelings that have made me who I am. I am grateful for all of it, for all of you, for listening to them, if you choose to do so.”
Fans don’t have too long to wait to hear new music either. The title track, ‘The Great Divide’, will be released this Friday (January 30).
The Great Divide is the highly anticipated follow up to 2022’s Stick Season. This album, in particular the title track of the same name, was a catalyst for Noah’s mainstream breakthrough, leading to him being nominated for Best New Artist at the 2023 Grammy Awards.
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