The Great Divide
Noah Kahan
The Great Divide is Noah Kahan's fourth studio album, released on April 24, 2026 via Mercury Records. It arrives as the follow-up to his breakthrough Stick Season (2022) — a record that turned Kahan from a Vermont singer-songwriter into a genuinely household name — and was recorded across a range of deliberately intimate, isolated environments: next to a pond in Guilford, Vermont; beside a piano in Nashville; at a storied studio in upstate New York; and on a farm with a fire tower in Only, Tennessee. As Kahan described it, the record was conceived as a lyrically mature step forward that avoids retreading familiar ground, and the physical remoteness of many of its recording sessions mirrors the album's central preoccupation: the strange loneliness of achieved success, the feeling of being unmoored by a big moment, and the ways fame quietly estranges a person from their own life. It was produced by Gabe Simon — Kahan's collaborator on Stick Season — alongside Aaron Dessner of The National, and spans 17 tracks (with a deluxe edition extending to 21) across a runtime of over an hour.
Musically, The Great Divide is built around guitar in a way Kahan notes is the first time he has returned to that instrument as his primary compositional tool since Stick Season, and the result is a record with the layered, fireside intimacy that has become his signature, while reaching toward a wider emotional range than before. Songs are allowed to breathe and unspool at their own pace — many stretching longer than expected rather than rushing toward a hook — touching on fractured relationships ("The Great Divide"), sibling love rendered with "messy, unfiltered honesty" ("Willing and Able"), and the particular contradictions of feeling that one does not deserve the life one has built. "Dashboard" and "Deny Deny Deny" emerge as the album's most outward-facing anthems, the kind of songs built for arenas, while "Paid Time Off" leans fully into folk with a foot-tapping directness. When the Horn Blows described it as "a subtle, searching step forward" that is "comforting in a way that's hard to manufacture," praised for its emotional clarity and for Kahan's willingness to sit with personal contradictions rather than resolve them neatly — a record, in other words, that deepens rather than simply extends what he does best.
The Great Divide is Noah Kahan's fourth studio album, released on April 24, 2026 via Mercury Records. It arrives as the follow-up to his breakthrough Stick Season (2022) — a record that turned Kahan from a Vermont singer-songwriter into a genuinely household name — and was recorded across a range of deliberately intimate, isolated environments: next to a pond in Guilford, Vermont; beside a piano in Nashville; at a storied studio in upstate New York; and on a farm with a fire tower in Only, Tennessee. As Kahan described it, the record was conceived as a lyrically mature step forward that avoids retreading familiar ground, and the physical remoteness of many of its recording sessions mirrors the album's central preoccupation: the strange loneliness of achieved success, the feeling of being unmoored by a big moment, and the ways fame quietly estranges a person from their own life. It was produced by Gabe Simon — Kahan's collaborator on Stick Season — alongside Aaron Dessner of The National, and spans 17 tracks (with a deluxe edition extending to 21) across a runtime of over an hour.
Musically, The Great Divide is built around guitar in a way Kahan notes is the first time he has returned to that instrument as his primary compositional tool since Stick Season, and the result is a record with the layered, fireside intimacy that has become his signature, while reaching toward a wider emotional range than before. Songs are allowed to breathe and unspool at their own pace — many stretching longer than expected rather than rushing toward a hook — touching on fractured relationships ("The Great Divide"), sibling love rendered with "messy, unfiltered honesty" ("Willing and Able"), and the particular contradictions of feeling that one does not deserve the life one has built. "Dashboard" and "Deny Deny Deny" emerge as the album's most outward-facing anthems, the kind of songs built for arenas, while "Paid Time Off" leans fully into folk with a foot-tapping directness. When the Horn Blows described it as "a subtle, searching step forward" that is "comforting in a way that's hard to manufacture," praised for its emotional clarity and for Kahan's willingness to sit with personal contradictions rather than resolve them neatly — a record, in other words, that deepens rather than simply extends what he does best.
The Great Divide is Noah Kahan's fourth studio album, released on April 24, 2026 via Mercury Records. It arrives as the follow-up to his breakthrough Stick Season (2022) — a record that turned Kahan from a Vermont singer-songwriter into a genuinely household name — and was recorded across a range of deliberately intimate, isolated environments: next to a pond in Guilford, Vermont; beside a piano in Nashville; at a storied studio in upstate New York; and on a farm with a fire tower in Only, Tennessee. As Kahan described it, the record was conceived as a lyrically mature step forward that avoids retreading familiar ground, and the physical remoteness of many of its recording sessions mirrors the album's central preoccupation: the strange loneliness of achieved success, the feeling of being unmoored by a big moment, and the ways fame quietly estranges a person from their own life. It was produced by Gabe Simon — Kahan's collaborator on Stick Season — alongside Aaron Dessner of The National, and spans 17 tracks (with a deluxe edition extending to 21) across a runtime of over an hour.
Musically, The Great Divide is built around guitar in a way Kahan notes is the first time he has returned to that instrument as his primary compositional tool since Stick Season, and the result is a record with the layered, fireside intimacy that has become his signature, while reaching toward a wider emotional range than before. Songs are allowed to breathe and unspool at their own pace — many stretching longer than expected rather than rushing toward a hook — touching on fractured relationships ("The Great Divide"), sibling love rendered with "messy, unfiltered honesty" ("Willing and Able"), and the particular contradictions of feeling that one does not deserve the life one has built. "Dashboard" and "Deny Deny Deny" emerge as the album's most outward-facing anthems, the kind of songs built for arenas, while "Paid Time Off" leans fully into folk with a foot-tapping directness. When the Horn Blows described it as "a subtle, searching step forward" that is "comforting in a way that's hard to manufacture," praised for its emotional clarity and for Kahan's willingness to sit with personal contradictions rather than resolve them neatly — a record, in other words, that deepens rather than simply extends what he does best.
The Great Divide
Noah Kahan
The Great Divide is Noah Kahan's fourth studio album, released on April 24, 2026 via Mercury Records. It arrives as the follow-up to his breakthrough Stick Season (2022) — a record that turned Kahan from a Vermont singer-songwriter into a genuinely household name — and was recorded across a range of deliberately intimate, isolated environments: next to a pond in Guilford, Vermont; beside a piano in Nashville; at a storied studio in upstate New York; and on a farm with a fire tower in Only, Tennessee. As Kahan described it, the record was conceived as a lyrically mature step forward that avoids retreading familiar ground, and the physical remoteness of many of its recording sessions mirrors the album's central preoccupation: the strange loneliness of achieved success, the feeling of being unmoored by a big moment, and the ways fame quietly estranges a person from their own life. It was produced by Gabe Simon — Kahan's collaborator on Stick Season — alongside Aaron Dessner of The National, and spans 17 tracks (with a deluxe edition extending to 21) across a runtime of over an hour.
Musically, The Great Divide is built around guitar in a way Kahan notes is the first time he has returned to that instrument as his primary compositional tool since Stick Season, and the result is a record with the layered, fireside intimacy that has become his signature, while reaching toward a wider emotional range than before. Songs are allowed to breathe and unspool at their own pace — many stretching longer than expected rather than rushing toward a hook — touching on fractured relationships ("The Great Divide"), sibling love rendered with "messy, unfiltered honesty" ("Willing and Able"), and the particular contradictions of feeling that one does not deserve the life one has built. "Dashboard" and "Deny Deny Deny" emerge as the album's most outward-facing anthems, the kind of songs built for arenas, while "Paid Time Off" leans fully into folk with a foot-tapping directness. When the Horn Blows described it as "a subtle, searching step forward" that is "comforting in a way that's hard to manufacture," praised for its emotional clarity and for Kahan's willingness to sit with personal contradictions rather than resolve them neatly — a record, in other words, that deepens rather than simply extends what he does best.
The Great Divide is Noah Kahan's fourth studio album, released on April 24, 2026 via Mercury Records. It arrives as the follow-up to his breakthrough Stick Season (2022) — a record that turned Kahan from a Vermont singer-songwriter into a genuinely household name — and was recorded across a range of deliberately intimate, isolated environments: next to a pond in Guilford, Vermont; beside a piano in Nashville; at a storied studio in upstate New York; and on a farm with a fire tower in Only, Tennessee. As Kahan described it, the record was conceived as a lyrically mature step forward that avoids retreading familiar ground, and the physical remoteness of many of its recording sessions mirrors the album's central preoccupation: the strange loneliness of achieved success, the feeling of being unmoored by a big moment, and the ways fame quietly estranges a person from their own life. It was produced by Gabe Simon — Kahan's collaborator on Stick Season — alongside Aaron Dessner of The National, and spans 17 tracks (with a deluxe edition extending to 21) across a runtime of over an hour.
Musically, The Great Divide is built around guitar in a way Kahan notes is the first time he has returned to that instrument as his primary compositional tool since Stick Season, and the result is a record with the layered, fireside intimacy that has become his signature, while reaching toward a wider emotional range than before. Songs are allowed to breathe and unspool at their own pace — many stretching longer than expected rather than rushing toward a hook — touching on fractured relationships ("The Great Divide"), sibling love rendered with "messy, unfiltered honesty" ("Willing and Able"), and the particular contradictions of feeling that one does not deserve the life one has built. "Dashboard" and "Deny Deny Deny" emerge as the album's most outward-facing anthems, the kind of songs built for arenas, while "Paid Time Off" leans fully into folk with a foot-tapping directness. When the Horn Blows described it as "a subtle, searching step forward" that is "comforting in a way that's hard to manufacture," praised for its emotional clarity and for Kahan's willingness to sit with personal contradictions rather than resolve them neatly — a record, in other words, that deepens rather than simply extends what he does best.
The Great Divide is Noah Kahan's fourth studio album, released on April 24, 2026 via Mercury Records. It arrives as the follow-up to his breakthrough Stick Season (2022) — a record that turned Kahan from a Vermont singer-songwriter into a genuinely household name — and was recorded across a range of deliberately intimate, isolated environments: next to a pond in Guilford, Vermont; beside a piano in Nashville; at a storied studio in upstate New York; and on a farm with a fire tower in Only, Tennessee. As Kahan described it, the record was conceived as a lyrically mature step forward that avoids retreading familiar ground, and the physical remoteness of many of its recording sessions mirrors the album's central preoccupation: the strange loneliness of achieved success, the feeling of being unmoored by a big moment, and the ways fame quietly estranges a person from their own life. It was produced by Gabe Simon — Kahan's collaborator on Stick Season — alongside Aaron Dessner of The National, and spans 17 tracks (with a deluxe edition extending to 21) across a runtime of over an hour.
Musically, The Great Divide is built around guitar in a way Kahan notes is the first time he has returned to that instrument as his primary compositional tool since Stick Season, and the result is a record with the layered, fireside intimacy that has become his signature, while reaching toward a wider emotional range than before. Songs are allowed to breathe and unspool at their own pace — many stretching longer than expected rather than rushing toward a hook — touching on fractured relationships ("The Great Divide"), sibling love rendered with "messy, unfiltered honesty" ("Willing and Able"), and the particular contradictions of feeling that one does not deserve the life one has built. "Dashboard" and "Deny Deny Deny" emerge as the album's most outward-facing anthems, the kind of songs built for arenas, while "Paid Time Off" leans fully into folk with a foot-tapping directness. When the Horn Blows described it as "a subtle, searching step forward" that is "comforting in a way that's hard to manufacture," praised for its emotional clarity and for Kahan's willingness to sit with personal contradictions rather than resolve them neatly — a record, in other words, that deepens rather than simply extends what he does best.