Noah Kahan is back — and he brought all of Vermont with him. The two-time Grammy nominee released his highly anticipated fourth studio album, The Great Divide, on April 24 via Mercury Records, arriving nearly four years after Stick Season turned him into a folk-pop phenomenon. The 17-track project is as personal as anything Kahan has put to tape, tracing the disorienting distance that fame has carved between him, his family, and the small-town roots that made him. “I think it’s important to be honest about what it really feels like for me right now,” he said of his creative mindset going in.
Written across sessions in Nashville, Guilford, Vermont, upstate New York, and a farm in Only, Tennessee, the album pulls at familiar tension points — the ex you haven’t gotten over, the family member you’ve become a stranger to, the younger self staring back at you. Six tracks were co-produced by the legendary Aaron Dessner. Less than 24 hours after the album’s release, Kahan surprised fans with a deluxe edition, The Great Divide: The Last of the Bugs, adding four additional tracks to the record.
