Noah Kahan announces his fourth album, “The Great Divide”

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Expected on April 24, this new opus from Noah Kahan follows the triumph of “Stick Season” (2022), which propelled the singer to the forefront of the folk scene.

Noah Kahan will dig deep within himself on his upcoming fourth studio album, The Great Divide. The singer-songwriter announced that the record would be released on April 24, accompanying the news on social media with a statement that sets the scene for what appears to have been an emotional adventure looking back to the past.

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An album recorded between Nashville and Vermont

Kahan wrote and recorded The Great Divide in several places, including “next to a piano in Nashville, by a pond in Guilford, Vermont, in a legendary studio in upstate New York, and on a farm with a watchtower in Only, Tennessee. » This disc marks the follow-up to his acclaimed third album, Stick Seasonreleased in 2022 and which earned him a nomination for Best New Artist at the 2024 Grammy Awards.

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First extract this Friday

The first glimpse of The Great Divide will arrive this Friday, January 30, when Kahan will unveil the title track. Fans have been waiting for the official release of this song since 2024, when he presented it live at Fenway Park. “I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich / I hope you only fear ordinary shit” (I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich/I hope you're scared of only ordinary shit), he sings in the extract, captioned: “Everything great is worth waiting for.” »

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