Westerman Announces Album, Shares Video for New Song “Adriatic”: Watch

Westerman has announced the new album A Jackal’s Wedding. The British musician’s follow-up to 2023’s An Inbuilt Fault is out November 7, via Partisan. He wrote most of A Jackal’s Wedding in Athens, Greece, and recorded it at Old Carpet Factory with producer Marta Salogni. Below, watch the video for lead single “Adriatic.”

Elaborating on the track, Westerman said in a press release: “I wrote ‘Adriatic’ while failing at moving to Greece. I was trying to break outside of the confines of my immediate physical reality. Life is full of practical limitations in terms of having a body, or what you can afford in terms of money, etc., but you can always go to a place in your head where everything is possible, and the song is a celebration of reclaiming that. I hadn’t written anything for a long time. I got very depressed after my first record; the whole experience was just so bad that I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to make music anymore. Writing this song was taking back ownership of that creative space which is just my thing and it’s powerful. There are periods in everybody’s life where they feel like maybe they don’t have any control over anything. It’s the realisation that there’s a part of you that they can’t get to unless you allow for it, and you can always keep that space, even if it’s buried; it doesn’t go away as long as you remember that it’s there.”

Westerman will support Nation of Language on tour soon. See his tour dates below.

A Jackal’s Wedding:

01 S. Machine
02 About Leaving
03 Adriatic
04 Mosquito
05 Spring
06 PSFN
07 Nevermind
08 Agnus Dei
09 Nation of a Language
10 Weak Hands
11 You Are Indelibly Where I Sleep

Westerman:

10-08 Vancouver, British Columbia – The Pearl *
10-11 Portland, OR – Revolution Hall *
10-13 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore *
11-08 Manchester, England – O2 Ritz Manchester * 
11-09 Glasgow, Scotland – St. Luke’s * 
11-11 Cardiff, Wales – Tramshed *
11-12 London, England – The Roundhouse *
11-14 Paris, France – Elysee Montmartre *
11-15 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg *
11-16 Nijmegen, Netherlands – Doornroosje *
11-18 Cologne, Germany – Gloria *
11-19 Hamburg, Germany – Uebel & Gefährlich *
11-21 Berlin, Germany – Columbiahalle * 
11-22 Munich, Germany – Technikum *

* with Nation of Language

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