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Every week, 88Nine music director Erin Wolf shares a sonic gem she found using her nearly 20 years of new-music exploration experience. You can hear all her discoveries on <\/i>What\u2019s All This: Adventures in New Music<\/u><\/b><\/a>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n Will Westerman, the U.K.-based synth-y singer-songwriter with the deep voice and penchant for polyrhythms, is back with a single to announce his new album, A Jackal\u2019s Wedding<\/i>.<\/p>\n \u201cAdriatic\u201d is a delightfully misty-sounding song inspired by Westerman\u2019s recent creative workshopping time in Athens, Greece. The full album was mostly written there, and the lead single covers his disappointment in trying to move to Greece permanently.<\/p>\n \u201cI was trying to break outside of the confines of my immediate physical reality,\u201d he explained before going on to point out that \u201clife is full of practical limitations in terms of having a body, or what you can afford in terms of money. But you can always go to a place in your head where everything is possible, and the song is a celebration of that.\u201d<\/p>\n Even though Greece didn\u2019t work out quite how Westerman imagined, A Jackal\u2019s Wedding<\/i> should be a good testament to his time spent there and of all the ways a place can get into the cracks and layers of the art one creates. His first new full batch of music since 2023 comes out Nov. 7 on Partisan Records, and you can find him touring on select dates for like-sounded dreamsters Nation of Language (although not the Milwaukee date Sept. 27<\/u><\/a>).<\/p>\n Hear \u201cAdriatic\u201d from Westerman on the latest episode of What\u2019s All This<\/i>, which you can check out via the player at the top of the page.<\/p>\nBest new indie music this week<\/h2>\n
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