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Westerman
Westerman
country: UK
genre: Alternative
styles: Art Pop, Experimental, Electronic
CSI: Petralona
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Reviews and Comments
"Westerman — the London-born, Athens-based pop maverick — has returned with his new album, ‘An Inbuilt Fault’.
The album's nine songs took shape throughout the depths of the pandemic and soundtrack Westerman’s reckoning with two years of intense isolation, loneliness, heartbreak, and dread. The phrase “an inbuilt fault” itself is an examination of the inherent and innate flaws that make us human – a visceral response to Westerman’s disillusionment with AI and social media during this time period.
Through it all, the album is visceral and live-sounding, full of the sound of breath and the idiosyncratic gestures of acoustic instruments. It creates a spatial feeling, sounding like musicians assembled in a room, passing evolving ideas back and forth. Co-produced with producer and percussionist James Krivchenia (Big Thief), and featuring an extended crew of Los Angeles associates, 'An Inbuilt Fault' exhibits music that is heavier and more sonically daring than Westerman’s previous releases, and it is the most adventurous and unselfconscious songwriting of Will Westerman’s career.
‘An Inbuilt Fault’ follows Westerman’s acclaimed 2020 debut ‘Your Hero Is Not Dead,’ a graceful and self-reflective project which earned him a spot as one of the most talked about new artists of the year thanks to profiles from Pitchfork (‘Rising’), Stereogum (‘Artist To Watch’), and Rolling Stone (‘Artist You Need To Know’)."
latest releases
LP
An Inbuilt Fault (Deluxe)
out on September 22, 2023
via Partisan / Play It Again Sam
LP
An Inbuilt Fault
out on May 05, 2023
via Partisan / Play It Again Sam
Single
A Lens Turning
out on May 02, 2023
via Partisan Records
Single
Take
out on March 22, 2023
via Partisan Records
Single
Idol; RE-run
out on October 12, 2022
via Partisan / Play It Again Sam
Single
Drawbridge (Unknown Mortal Orchestra Remix)
out on February 09, 2021
via Play It Again Sam
