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An Inbuilt Fault

    Westerman — the London-born, Athens-based pop maverick — has returned with his new album, ‘An Inbuilt Fault’.

    The album’s nine songs took shape throughout the depths of the pandemic, and soundtrack Westerman’s reckoning with two years of intense isolation, loneliness, heartbreak, and dread. Through it all, the album is visceral and live-sounding, full of the sound of breath and the idiosyncratic gestures of acoustic instruments. It creates a spatial feeling, sounding like musicians assembled in a room, passing evolving ideas back and forth. Co-produced with producer & percussionist James Krivchenia (Big Thief), ‘An Inbuilt Fault’ musically references everything from Talk Talk’s delightfully strange and ethereal brand of pop, David Byrne’s bag of rhythmic tricks, Cat Stevens’ fireside warmth and much more.

    ‘An Inbuilt Fault’ follows Westerman’s acclaimed 2020 debut ‘Your Hero Is Not Dead,’ a graceful and self-reflective project which earned him a spot as one of the most talked about new artists of the year thanks to profiles from Pitchfork (‘Rising’), Stereogum (‘Artist To Watch’), and Rolling Stone (‘Artist You Need To Know’).

    STAFF COMMENTS

    Barry says: Slices of crisply produced pop music sprout out of hypnotic acoustic guitar and jagged jazzy percussion. It's wonderfully dynamic, but also not at all over-produced or overworked, and provides the perfect bed for Westerman's woozy, pitch-perfect vocal syrup. Beautiful.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Give
    2. Idol; RE-run
    3. I, Catallus.
    4. CSI: Petralona
    5. Help Didn't Help At All
    6. A Lens Turning
    7. Take
    8. An Inbuilt Fault
    9. Pilot Was A Dancer

    Westerman

    Your Hero Is Not Dead

      Debut LP from West London singer songwriter Will Westerman.

      Your Hero Is Not Dead is the follow-up to his critically-acclaimed Ark EP. Recorded alongside his close friend and producer Nathan Jenkins (A.K.A. Bullion) at first in Southern Portugal before finishing the process in London, Your Hero Is Not Dead is an album about empathy and compassion, struggle and release, and all the ways we contradict and battle within ourselves. The project is full of supremely crafted, groove-hinged songs about moral, political, and ethical grey areas, that find Westerman attempting to resolve external issues by looking inward.

      TRACK LISTING

      Drawbridge
      The Line
      Big Nothing Glow
      Waiting On Design
      Think I'll Stay
      Dream Appropriate
      Easy Money
      Blue Comanche
      Confirmation
      Paper Dogs
      Float Over
      Your Hero Is Not Dead

      Westerman

      Confirmation

        After his early material revealed an ambitious new sound borne on the forward-thinking experimentalism of influences like Nick Drake, David Byrne and Arthur Russell, Westerman’s single ‘Confirmation’ - available here on 7” - brought his music to new legions of fans, with Pitchfork profiling him in their Rising and Best New Music columns, saying it “captures a promising writer who’s learned how to take good ideas and warp them into stranger, more sublime shapes.” Gorilla Vs Bear placed it at Number 10 in their recent Best Tracks Of The Year (So Far) feature.

        TRACK LISTING

        Confirmation
        I Turned Away


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