Noah Kahan has announced that his new album, The Great Divide, will arrive on April 24th. The lead single and title track, which Kahan teased in a social media post, will precede the record this Friday, January 30th.
The new record reunites Kahan with his Stick Season producer Gabe Simon, while also bringing The National’s Aaron Dessner (Taylor Swift, Gracie Abrams) into the mix. In announcing the post on his social channels, Kahan 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. 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.”
Pre-order for The Great Divide are already live via Kahan’s website, with the vinyl edition available in “American Rust” and “Headlights in the Dark” colors. Find the cover artwork, as well as the “The Great Divide” song teaser, below.
The Great Divide comes four years after the indie folk star’s breakout smash, Stick Season. He also released the Live from Fenway live LP back in 2024. Also on Kahan’s docket is a headlining appearance at Bonnaroo 2026, which follows his own Out of the Blue destination festival from earlier this year.
Revisit our cover story Out of the Sticks, Into the Fire, which finds Kahan diving into his swift rise to stardom and how he’d begun approaching his next album.
