Westerman has announced a new album: An Inbuilt Fault is out May 5 via Partisan and PIAS. The London-born, Athens-based singer-songwriter’s second studio LP includes the single “Idol; Re-Run,” as well as a new track called “CSI: Petralona.” Hear the new one, co-produced by Westerman and Big Thief’s James Krivchenia, below.
In a statement, Westerman called “CSI: Petralona” the “most autobiographical song on the record,” adding that it was inspired by a trip he took to Greece before deciding to move there. He also said:
I had the riff for the song and left it lying around with a bunch of other bits and pieces. 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.
An Inbuilt Fault follows Westerman’s 2020 debut, Your Hero Is Not Dead. Revisit Pitchfork’s 2018 interview “Get to Know Westerman, Who’s Making Graceful Pop for a Graceless World.”
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Westerman: An Inbuilt Fault
An Inbuilt Fault:
01 Give
02 Idol; Re-Run
03 I, Catullus.
04 CSI: Petralona
05 Help Didn’t Help at All
06 A Lens Turning
07 Take
08 An Inbuilt Fault
09 Pilot Was a Dancer