Noah Kahan is gearing up to release his highly anticipated fourth studio album.
The indie Folk superstar announced that ‘The Great Divide’ will arrive on April 24, with the title track dropping this Friday, January 30, as the lead single. The Vermont native teased the song on social media, building excitement among fans.
For the new project, Kahan reunites with ‘Stick Season’ producer Gabe Simon while also bringing in Aaron Dessner of The National, who’s worked with Taylor Swift and Gracie Abrams.
In a heartfelt message shared across his social channels, the 27-year-old wrote:
“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.”
He continued:
“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.”
Pre-orders for the album are already available via Kahan’s website, with vinyl editions offered in “American Rust” and “Headlights in the Dark” colorways. The release comes four years after his breakthrough album ‘Stick Season’, which catapulted him to stardom. He also dropped the ‘Live from Fenway’ live LP in 2024.
The singer-songwriter is set to headline Bonnaroo 2026, following his own Out of the Blue destination festival earlier this year.