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Aug 20, 2025 By Mark Redfern Photography by Eric Scaggiante

Westerman (full name Will Westerman) has announced a new album, A Jackal’s Wedding, and shared its first single, “Adriatic,” via a music video. A Jackal’s Wedding is due out November 7 via Partisan. Below check out “Adriatic,” followed by the album’s details and Westerman’s upcoming tour dates.

A Jackal’s Wedding is Westerman’s third album and follows 2023’s An Inbuilt Fault and 2020’s Your Hero is Not Dead (which made it to #23 on our Top 100 Albums of 2020 list).

Westerman wrote the album in Athens and then collaborated with producer Marta Salogni (Björk, The xx, Sampha), recording A Jackal’s Wedding over the course of five weeks on the Greek island of Hydra at the Old Carpet Factory, which is described in a press release as “a ramshackle, yet beautiful 17th century mansion converted into an arts space and studio.” It was incredibly hot and the only instrument they brought with them was a drum machine, although the studio had its own instruments.

“Allowing the restrictions of the place, it becomes an elemental part of what you’re doing,” Westerman says in the press release. “The record is authentic by necessity.”

Of the new single, Westerman says: “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 realization 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.”

Check out our interview with Westerman, which originally appeared in Issue 67 of our print issue.

A Jackal’s Wedding Tracklist:

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 Tour Dates:

(all dates supporting Nation of Language)

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

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