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Sep 30, 2025 By Mark Redfern Photography by Eric Scaggiante

Westerman (full name Will Westerman) is releasing a new album, A Jackal’s Wedding, on November 7 via Partisan. Now he has shared its second single, “About Leaving,” and announced some new tour dates. Check out the single and tour dates below.

Westerman had this to say about the song in a press release: “I wrote the lyrics in different places: London, America and Greece. They were always written in a fleeting way, and that became an animating principle of what kind of imagery is contained. There are different ways of looking at that, right? You can look at that from the perspective of loss, or you can look at it from the perspective of opportunity, or you can look at it from the perspective of excitement or fear. I tried to play around with all of those things in an enveloping way. I was reading The Rime of the Ancient Mariner over and over and I had an image of this person on the sea, not understanding where they’re going and not in control of anything, but unlike in the poem, finding that exciting and enjoying it for what it is.”

Previously Westerman shared its first single, “Adriatic,” via a music video. It was one of our Songs of the Week.

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.”

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

Westerman 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 #
8 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 #
Sun. Feb. 15 - Dublin, IE @ Opium
Wed. Feb. 18 - London, UK @ Village Underground
Fri. Feb. 20 - Bristol, UK @ Bristol Beacon
Sun. Feb. 22 - Brussels, BE @ Botanique - Rotonde
Mon. Feb. 23 - Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie
Fri. Feb. 27 - Prague, CZ @ MeetFactory
Mon. Mar. 16 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
Tue. Mar. 17 - Raleigh, NC @ Kings
Thu. Mar. 19 - Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
Fri. Mar. 20 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry
Sat. Mar. 21 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Mon. Mar. 23 - Boston, MA @ Sinclair
Tue. Mar. 24 - Montreal, QC @ Fairmount Theatre
Wed. Mar. 25 - Toronto, ON @ Great Hall
Fri. Mar. 27 - Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village
Sat. Mar. 28 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street
Mon. Mar. 30 - Denver, CO @ Ophelia’s
Wed. Apr. 1 - Salt Lake City, UT @ State Room

# = with Nation of Language

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