Westerman takes me to place outside the chaos, the crowd, and the chatter. His music is pensive and grounding, which is a hard balance to find when deep thoughts can make your mind run wild. Anyway, he's got a new single out today called "CSI: Petralona" that was self-co-produced alongside Big Thief's James Krivchenia. The song also announces his next album An Inbuilt Fault which is out May 5 via Partisan Records.
"I had the riff for the song and left it lying around with a bunch of other bits and pieces," Westerman said about the new single. "A friend told me that Tom Waits has this image of having a musical junk drawer of old parts that you haven’t found anything to do with. It came from there. I went to Greece for a month to scope out if I wanted to move here, and a friend encouraged me to write about this strange day I had there. The lyrics were immediate. It's presented on the album as it was first written. It's the most autobiographical song on the record."
Listen to "CSI: Petralona" below.
