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In 2023, Noah Kahan, a singer and songwriter from Strafford, Vermont, leapfrogged to superstardom following the release of \u201cStick Season,\u201d a COVID<\/em>-era LP full of claustrophobic, lovesick folk songs. Kahan has a soft, nasal voice\u2014more Simon than Garfunkel\u2014and he uses it to eulogize relationships that falter for reasons both intentional and incidental. If its instrumentation were just slightly more askew, \u201cStick Season\u201d could have easily been released on the indie label Sub Pop in the mid-to-late two-thousands, wedged somewhere in between the Shins and the Head and the Heart\u2014its sound is something like a peppier Fleet Foxes, if Robin Pecknold had been reared on Counting Crows instead of Vashti Bunyan. Instead, Kahan occupies a funny spot in the pop-music cosmos\u2014music for people who own too much performance fleece to embrace the bombast of Taylor Swift<\/a> but aren\u2019t quite feral enough for the cacophony of Geese<\/a>. It\u2019s the kind of thing that sounds really nice in a Subaru, on your way to work, with an iced coffee nestled in the cup holder.<\/p>\n Yet Kahan\u2019s voice is also an unusually good vessel for ache: \u201cI ain\u2019t proud of all the punches that I\u2019ve thrown \/ In the name of someone I no longer know,\u201d he sings on \u201cDial Drunk<\/a>,\u201d a song about clinging, somewhat frantically, to an expired emergency contact. \u201cNow I know your name, but not who you are,\u201d he laments on \u201cAll My Love<\/a>,\u201d a no-hard-feelings song about an ex. (\u201cIf you need me, dear, I\u2019m the same as I was,\u201d he adds on the chorus.) Lyrically, Kahan is preoccupied by the slowness of change, whether it\u2019s the awkward, loping transition between seasons or the equally untidy stretch between a relationship ending and finding peace with what happened. Kahan\u2019s fear of leaving is at least as strong as his fear of being left behind.<\/p>\n He also writes about his home in a way that feels anomalous for the current era, in which pop artists tend to be geographically nonspecific, untethered from place and centered online. Kahan is from the Upper Valley, a quaint and seasonally verdant region encompassing parts of eastern Vermont and western New Hampshire, and sliced through by the Connecticut River\u2014a scenic haven for canoers<\/a> and for anglers chasing trout. The Upper Valley is perhaps as Platonically New England as an area can get (peeling red barns, rickety covered bridges, green mountains, golden retrievers). \u201cNoah Kahan: Out of Body,\u201d a documentary d\u00e9buting on Netflix today, explores Kahan\u2019s feelings of belonging, or, more accurately, of misbelonging\u2014to the Upper Valley, largely, but also on stage, within the context of his family, and in his own body.<\/p>\n The film opens just before Kahan plays two sold-out shows at Fenway Park in July of 2024. \u201cI\u2019m so afraid of losing this special thing, like, it might go away,\u201d he says in a voice over. \u201cAfter all this, what is my purpose? And who am I now?\u201d Though Kahan signed to Republic Records in 2017, it wasn\u2019t until the pandemic, when he started uploading funny, unfinished snippets of songs about Vermont to social media, that he became a phenomenon. Back then, it was still the Wild West days of TikTok, and fame came fast and hard. By all accounts, virality is violent for its subjects, and building a sustainable career from sudden celebrity is a formidable task; any sensible person would be wise to distrust such an instantaneous anointing. When I spoke to Kahan<\/a> at the very start of 2024, he had recently performed on \u201cS.N.L.,\u201d and had been nominated for a Grammy for Best New Artist. I found him affable, self-effacing, and slightly terrified. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m kind of trying to keep my head above water,\u201d he told me. \u201cEverybody says this, but I truly never imagined in my wildest dreams the level of attention and, frankly, stress that I would be contending with because of this album. I haven\u2019t done a great job of dealing with it,\u201d he added. \u201cI think I\u2019m starting to get a hold of the habits I need to form to handle this. But I have been struggling. It\u2019s just not easy.\u201d The documentary features a scene of Kahan, wielding a golf club and whacking a pi\u00f1ata of himself to smithereens, a kind of not-so-metaphorical ego death: \u201cOne-hit-wonder motherfucker! Your music is mid!\u201d he hollers. When Kahan is asked about making a follow-up to \u201cStick Season,\u201d his voice goes limp with dread. \u201cI\u2019m scared, I\u2019m sad for the next album,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m also acutely aware that nothing will ever be the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.newyorker.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2023, Noah Kahan, a singer and songwriter from Strafford, Vermont, leapfrogged to superstardom following the release of \u201cStick Season,\u201d a COVID-era LP full of claustrophobic, lovesick folk songs. Kahan has a soft, nasal voice\u2014more Simon than Garfunkel\u2014and he uses it to eulogize relationships that falter for reasons both intentional and incidental. 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