A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language.

Happy Friday, everyone, from NPR Music. It's New Music Friday. I'm Stephen Thompson, here with DJ Lou from Vermont in Colchester, Vermont. Welcome to the show, Lou.

Thanks so much, Stephen. I'm really excited to be here.

Well, I am really excited to have you, and you can probably tell, based on this release week,

why we might have asked somebody from Vermont public to be on this show.

Indeed, there's this guy, Noah from Southern Vermont Vermont that somebody somewhere heard once and now

it'll set it to he's a thing. Yeah, yeah, it's Noah Kande. Yeah, it's really exciting to hear this new

album and I think people are really going to have a cathartic release listening to this. It's a good one.

It is a good one and we're going to get to it in just a moment, but we were just talking off

mic about there's something about Lou, maybe you can speak to this, you live in Vermont, I'm

from Wisconsin, there's something about the music that can only come from Northern Men with

Feelings. You know, we have a lot of time on our hands for a long time of the year, aka Winter

Stick Season. You have a lot of time to season. You have a lot of time to reflect.

You have a lot of time to get into your feels. And if you have a guitar nearby, what better thing

than to start writing songs, you know, to pass the dark times? Absolutely. Well, let's hear a little bit

of it. Noah Khan's new album is called The Great Divide.

You wish yourself across The Great Divide. You winced yourself across the Great Divide.

We drove him to sleep along the twinstay divine.

I heard nothing but the bass in every palette that you'd play

while you swore to God this singer and you're mine

the world scared of hesitated things

yeah they only shoot the birds you cannot sing

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