Westerman - An Inbuilt Fault (May 5, 2023)

Somehow missed that he announced this. The three singles out are all phenomenal. ‘Your Hero Is Not Dead’ is one of the great underrated 2020s records imo. Stoked for this.

 

Can’t wait for this, discovered Your Hero is Not Dead recently when investigating whether this dude Twain would be opening for is good himself. Turns out he is! Thought this was coming out a week or two earlier, which is a slight bummer, but one of my more anticipated of the year at the moment.

 

Your Hero Is Not Dead is an album I’m very thankful to have tied to my summer of 2020. It was a big comfort record for me, and listening to it still takes me right back to that time and feeling

The singles for this new one have been awesome, can’t wait to hear it

 

"Take" is really something else.

 

Couple songs im not in love with toward the beginning but this is otherwise astounding

 

Yeah I’m a huge fan of this. Album of the year contender in my opinion. Just a massive show of creativity, melodicism, and growth from where he’s been in his previous work. Krivchenia threw the kitchen sink at this production and it all lands beautifully for me.

I think this hangs together a lot better as a full album than the singles might have suggested, and it’s kind of the opposite of last time where the singles were strong but the album didn’t quite drive as much replayability for me.

 

Pilot Was a Dancer, holy fuck

 

Last two songs, really

 

RIYL?

 

I used to think about artists like Talk Talk and John Matryn, but for this record I think Bon Iver is a good reference.

 

Haven’t really had a chance to get to this yet, tried on Friday night but could tell I wasn’t really in the mood for it and stopped. Really glad to hear about the positive impressions though

 

Conversation with James Krivchenia talking a bit about the record. He mentions he'll be recording the next album in Greece in July

https://www.talkhouse.com/westerman-talks-with-james-krivchenia-big-thief-on-the-talkhouse-podcast/

 

saw this dude last night, awesome show. and twain who opened and sang harmonies on about half the set is quite literally the best

 

Love Twain. I was about to say he doesn’t get any recognition but I just noticed you made a thread for him a few months ago!

 

Have been re-spinning Your Hero Is Not Dead and I think it's truly underrated at this point. "Paper Dogs" is one of those songs that just sneaks up on you late at night.

 

Surprising he hasn’t gotten more well known, both are so good

 

This one didn’t grab me immediately and I kinda forgot to ever run it back. Gonna challenge myself to put this on instead next time I’m craving YHIND

 

Your Hero is Not Dead is definitely better beginning to end (and more accessible in general) but maybe not better than the best stuff on this