Listen to Westerman’s New Song “Blue Comanche”
Westerman has shared a new single. It’s his first song for his new label Partisan Records. Take a listen to “Blue Comanche” below. Westerman’s also announced a handful of 2020 tour dates. Find those below.
In a statement, the West Londoner said the song concerns “the inevitability of environmental loss as a consequence of modernization.” He continued:
I’m not a Luddite, I don’t think we should go back to the Stone Age or anything, but there’s still something profoundly sad about what’s being lost.
I find party politics frustrating, because it’s so cyclical. I’m obsessed with ethics, and politics and ethics can be bad bedfellows. I’m political in a solitary way. There are issues that I think are important and occupy my thoughts, but I struggle with organized politics. In the party system there’s inevitable compromise and concession, which is frustrating. That’s why I like writing, you can say what you want without any dilution.
I wanted this to be a calming song though, not angry. Today it’s so easy to live in an echo chamber of bad news, but if you look hard you can still see individual acts of kindness everywhere. You have to be engaged and stay sensitive to suffering, but it's not constructive to live in that space all the time.
Read Pitchfork’s Rising feature “Get to Know Westerman, Who’s Making Graceful Pop for a Graceless World.”
Westerman:
01-15 Groningen, Netherlands - Eurosonic Noorderslag
06-04 London, England - Hoxton Hall
07-22 Brooklyn, NY - National Sawdust
07-25 Toronto, Ontario - The Garrison
07-30 Los Angeles, CA - Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
07-31 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
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