- 2026-01-30
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MUSIC
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Noah Kahan Announces New Album “The Great Divide”, Shares Title Track
American singer-songwriter Noah Kahan has announced his upcoming fourth studio album “The Great Divide” will be released on April 24, 2026.
The album marks his first full-length studio release in four years, following the 2022 album “Stick Season”.
From the album, he unveiled the title track “The Great Divide” as the first single on January 30, 2026.
He first performed the song at Fenway Park in 2024.
The song captures changes in his personal life following the overwhelming success of his 2022 album “Stick Season”.
It was written and produced by Noah Kahan and Gabe Simon.
He has already filmed a music video for the song, which will premiere during Mastercard's commercial time at the 2026 Grammy Awards on February 1, 2026.
Noah Kahan told PEOPLE about the song, “My life had changed so much and I felt this real gap growing. I started to think about divide in my life, whether that was the divide between me and this older version of me, or me and the people that I used to know growing up, or the people that are in my life that I'm still trying to keep a relationship with.”
He continued, “This song in particular is really about two people who grew up together, but maybe didn't know each other as well as they thought. A lot of my life recently has been realizing the things I wish I could have said to people and the things I wish I could have done differently, and so this song is kind of just an expansion of that.”- The new album comprises 17 tracks, produced by Noah Kahan and Gabe Simon.
Noah Kahan said of the album, “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. I am grateful for all of it, for all of you, for listening to them, if you choose to do so.” -
He said of his music, “When people call my music a snooze fest I take it as a compliment because to me going to an actual snoozing festival sounds fun and restful. Everyone there just sleeping side by side refreshed and ready to go after my two hours are up.” - source : Apple Music
