It’s been lower than 24 hours since Noah Kahan launched his extremely anticipated fourth studio album The Nice Divide, and he’s already dropping extra music.
Kahan shock dropped The Nice Divide: The Final of the Bugs — an prolonged model of the brand new album — on Friday, that includes 4 new tracks and bringing the monitor listing to an enormous 21 songs. Take a look at The Hollywood Reporter‘s breakdown of the album right here.
As a substitute of tacking the brand new songs on the finish of the album, Kahan determined to sprinkle them all through. “Lighthouse” is the primary of the brand new songs, touchdown at No. 5 on the tracklist, sandwiched in between the already launched “Downfall” and “Paid Time Off.” The subsequent monitor added is “Staying Nonetheless,” which comes after “Paid Time Off” and earlier than the album’s titular monitor. The ultimate two new songs, “A Few of Our Personal” and “Orbiter” land a lot additional down the album at No. 19 and No. 20, respectively.
The Nice Divide serves because the follow-up to Kahan’s breakthrough hit album, Stick Season, which helped remodel the Vermont native from a membership act to a stadium headliner. The 29-year-old introduced the album in late January and dropped the music video for its first single, the titular monitor, throughout a business break of the 2026 Grammy Awards.
“It’s arduous to even start to explain what these previous few years making this album has felt like,” Kahan stated in a launch about his newest album. “The collision of concern and stress and pleasure and luck and complete love has left me wordless. I spent many months strolling ahead in full darkness, palms out in entrance of me, determined to the touch one thing acquainted that may present me I used to be close to the sunshine swap once more.
“I used to be by no means actually alone,” Kahan continued. “I don’t assume any of us ever actually are. I used to be guided by the wilderness by calm voices, by the stillness of my house state, by the overall dedication of my band, producers, and crew, by the regular and loving contact of my spouse and household, and naturally, by the fixed and enduring encouragement of my followers. I’m very happy with what we’re doing collectively, and I hope we will dwell this dream for an extended very long time.”
Earlier this month, Kahan launched a Netflix documentary, Noah Kahan: Out of Physique. The 90-minute movie, directed by Nick Sweeney, follows the singer as he prepares to make The Nice Divide, standing on the crossroads of what to do within the wake of a smash hit.
