Westerman – A Jackal's Wedding

Westerman’s third album, 'A Jackal’s Wedding', is a humid, nocturnal record shaped by constant transition. Written largely in Athens and recorded at night over five weeks on the Greek island of Hydra with producer Marta Salogni (Björk, The xx, Sampha, English Teacher), the album takes its name from a folkloric term for a sunshower, a strange and beautiful contradiction that mirrors the record’s themes of motion, change, and surreal clarity.

Completed shortly after 2023’s 'An Inbuilt Fault', 'A Jackal’s Wedding' feels like a synthesis of everything that’s come before: the live, percussive feel of 'An Inbuilt Fault' woven into the alien textures of 'Your Hero Is Not Dead’. Limited only to the tools present during the initial 5 week recording session, Westerman says “Records exist authentically when tied to time and place. The limitations we imposed make this record authentic by necessity”. Exploring the limits of the equipment at hand, and shaped by the sounds of the environment around it, 'A Jackal’s Wedding' captures an artist learning to enjoy motion: still evolving, still searching, still seeing things that shouldn’t exist.