Westerman has announced a new album A Jackal’s Wedding to be released on Partisan Records on November 7th, along with a Dublin date next year and a listening party in Fidelity in Dublin the week of release.
‘About Leaving’ is the second song from the album shared to date, a ruminating piano-lead track with touches of Arthur Russell and The Beta Band to it.
Dublin gig:
15 February 2026 – Opium, Dublin
Dublin album listening event:
4 November – Fidelity Bar, Dublin (Nialler9 hosts the Q&A)
Tickets for the headline shows will go on sale on 3rd October 2025.
Full list of dates below.
Partisan Records in coordination with In Sheep’s Clothing HiFi will host a series of advanced, dedicated listenings for A Jackal’s Wedding in select cities. The album will be played in its entirety before it’s released for fans who RSVP and attend. More information can be found here.
Will Westerman says of ‘About Leaving’:
“I have been in perpetual motion for a long time, and as I get older, I find it harder to carve out the amount of time needed to finish things all at once. This was one of those songs that I had in the back of my mind and I had the chorus but no other lyrics. I wrote the lyrics in different places: London, America and Greece. They were always written in a fleeting way, and that became an animating principle of what kind of imagery is contained. There are different ways of looking at that, right? You can look at that from the perspective of loss, or you can look at it from the perspective of opportunity, or you can look at it from the perspective of excitement or fear. I tried to play around with all of those things in an enveloping way. I was reading The Rime of the Ancient Mariner over and over and I had an image of this person on the sea, not understanding where they’re going and not in control of anything, but unlike in the poem, finding that exciting and enjoying it for what it is.”
‘Adriatic’ is the song from the record previously shared, which is more of a alternative synth-pop persuasion.
Westerman – A Jackal’s Wedding
Completed shortly after Westerman’s second album, 2023’s An Inbuilt Fault, A Jackal’s Wedding gestated in a time of moving from London to Greece (his home for several years before a recent move to Milan), providing a rich new environment and a new set of themes and concerns.
He drew upon his unfamiliar surroundings to work his way into the album’s central concept: We can never really hit pause on real life, and things never get so predictable or stable as we’d like to think. Instead, it is all flux, forever punctuated by tiny moments of stillness, awe, harmony.
To create A Jackal’s Wedding, Westerman and Salogni holed up at the Old Carpet Factory, a ramshackle, yet beautiful 17th century mansion converted into an arts space and studio. They embraced the chaotic space fully, arriving equipped with only a drum machine, and relying on the studio’s extensive backline to craft the album’s mesmerising array of synth sounds. The environment of Hydra itself imposed additional limitations. It was 43°C, and they had to keep the windows open at all times; daytime recordings still bear the hum of the cicadas outside, and otherwise they had to toil through the sweltering quiet of the night. “Allowing the restrictions of the place, it becomes an elemental part of what you’re doing,” Westerman says. “The record is authentic by necessity.”
Westerman wraps fragments of his own experiences in characters – some trepidation of unknown possibilities and some invigorated. As each of these characters embark on their own voyages, so too do the snapshots sketch an arc for Westerman himself, growing to a newfound sense of comfort with the ground constantly shifting beneath our feet, the idea that everything is always changing around us out of our control. “I see this as a process of continually learning,” he says. Everything is in motion, Westerman leaving and revisiting farflung homes, evolving then evolving again, seeing things that shouldn’t exist, returning with an album that could only come from him.
A Jackal’s Wedding Album Listening Events
4 NOV 2025 / IE / Dublin / Fidelity Bar
5 NOV 2025 / US / Brooklyn, NY / Mr. Melo
5 NOV 2025 / US / Los Angeles, CA / In Sheep’s Clothing
6 NOV 2025 / IT / Milan / Onda Music
6 NOV 2025 / UK / London / Spiritland
Westerman Tour Dates
Supporting Nation of Language:
8 OCT 2025 / CA / Vancouver, BC / The Pearl
9 OCT 2025 / US / Seattle, WA / Showbox
10 OCT 2025 / US / Seattle, WA / Showbox
11 OCT 2025 / US / Portland, OR / Revolution Hall
13 OCT 2025 / US / San Francisco, CA / The Fillmore
15 OCT 2025 / US / Los Angeles, CA / Fonda Theatre
8 NOV 2025 / UK / Manchester / O2 Ritz
9 NOV 2025 / UK / Glasgow / St. Luke’s
11 NOV 2025 / UK / Cardiff / Tramshed
12 NOV 2025 / UK / London / Roundhouse
14 NOV 2025 / FR / Paris / Elysee Montmartre
15 NOV 2025 / NL / Amsterdam / Melkweg
16 NOV 2025 / NL / Nijmegen / Doornroosje
18 NOV 2025 / DE / Cologne / Gloria
19 NOV 2025 / DE / Hamburg / Uebel & Gefaehrlich
21 NOV 2025 / DE / Berlin / Columbiahalle
22 NOV 2025 / DE / Munich / Technikum
Headline tour dates:
15 FEB 2026 / IE / Dublin / Opium
18 FEB 2026 / UK / London / Village Underground
20 FEB 2026 / UK / Bristol / Bristol Beacon
22 FEB 2026 / BE / Brussels / Botanique – Rotonde
23 FEB 2026 / FR / Paris / La Maronquinerie
27 FEB 2026 / CZ / Prague / Meetfactory
16 MAR 2026 / US / Atlanta, GA / The Earl
17 MAR 2026 / US / Raleigh, NC / Kings
19 MAR 2026 / US / Washington, DC / The Atlantis
20 MAR 2026 / US / Philadelphia, PA / The Foundry
21 MAR 2026 / US / Brooklyn, NY / Music Hall of Williamsburg
23 MAR 2026 / US / Boston, MA / The Sinclair
24 MAR 2026 / CA / Montreal, QC / Fairmount Theatre
25 MAR 2026 / CA / Toronto, ON / Great Hall
27 MAR 2026 / US / Chicago, IL / Sleeping Village
28 MAR 2026 / US / Minneapolis, MN / 7th Street Entry
30 MAR 2026 / US / Denver, CO / Ophelia’s
01 APR 2026 / US / Salt Lake City, UT / State Room
A Jackal’s Wedding
Artwork & Tracklist:
1. S. Machine
2. About Leaving
3. Adriatic
4. Mosquito
5. Spring
6. PSFN
7. Nevermind
8. Agnus Dei
9. Nature of a Language
10. Weak Hands
11. You Are Indelibly Where I Sleep
Pre-Order here
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
