Westerman, the project of Will Westerman, will release his new album A Jackal’s Wedding, on November 7th via Partisan Records. Today, the artist has shared the lead-single “Adriatic.” A Jackal’s Wedding, was written largely in Athens and recorded over five weeks on the Greek island of Hydra with producer Marta Salogni (Björk, The xx, Sampha). This fall, Westerman will support Nation of Language on their North American, EU, and UK tour.

A Jackal’s Wedding, came together during Westerman’s relocation from London to Greece (his home for several years before a recent move to Milan), providing a rich new environment and a new set of themes and concerns. He drew upon his unfamiliar surroundings to work his way into the album’s central concept: We can never really hit pause on real life, and things never get so predictable or stable as we’d like to think. Instead, it is all flux, forever punctuated by tiny moments of stillness, awe, harmony.

Westerman and Salogni holed up at the Old Carpet Factory, a ramshackle, yet beautiful 17th century mansion converted into an arts space and studio. They embraced the chaotic space fully, arriving equipped with only a drum machine, and relying on the studio’s extensive backline to craft the album’s mesmerizing array of synth sounds. The environment of Hydra itself imposed additional limitations. It was 110 degrees, and they had to keep the windows open at all times; daytime recordings still bear the hum of the cicadas outside, and otherwise they had to toil through the sweltering quiet of the night. “Allowing the restrictions of the place, it becomes an elemental part of what you’re doing,” Westerman says. “The record is authentic by necessity.”

Westerman comments, “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
A Jackal’s Wedding
Tracklist
Partisan Records

1. S. Machine
2. About Leaving
3. Adriatic
4. Mosquito
5. Spring
6. PSFN
7. Nevermind
8. Agnus Dei
9. Nature of a Language
10. Weak Hands
11. You Are Indelibly Where I Sleep

Westerman 2025 Tour Dates

Wed. Oct. 8 – Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl
Thu. Oct. 9 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox
Fri. Oct. 10 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox
Sat. Oct. 11- Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
Mon. Oct. 13 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
Wed. Oct. 15 – Los Angeles, CA @ Fonda Theatre
08 Sat. Nov. 8 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz
Sun. Nov. 9 – Glasgow, UK @ St. Luke’s
Tue. Nov. 11 – Cardiff, UK @ Tramshed
Wed. Nov. 12 – London, UK @ Roundhouse
Fri. Nov. 14 – Paris @ Elysee Montmartre
Sat. Nov. 15 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg
Sun. Nov. 16 – Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje
Tue. Nov. 18 – Cologne, DE @ Gloria
Wed. Nov. 19- Hamburg, DE @ Uebel & Gefaehrlich
Fri. Nov. 21 – Berlin, DE @ Columbiahalle
Sat. Nov. 22 – Munich, DE @ Technikum

(all dates supporting Nation of Language)

Pre-Order A Jackal’s Wedding by Westerman HERE