Westerman shares new single/video, “About Leaving”,

“[Westerman] spreads himself wide across his music, forming a tapestry of rich textures and deep introspection. His songs become small fires on a starless night.” – Pitchfork

Westerman today releases the new single/video, “About Leaving”, the second track from his upcoming album, A Jackal’s Wedding, out 7 November 2025 via Partisan Records. Written largely in Athens and recorded over five weeks on the Greek island of Hydra with producer Marta Salogni (Björk, The xx, Sampha, English Teacher), A Jackal’s Wedding is deeply influenced by place and the sensation of being a newcomer again and again.

“About Leaving” is the album’s reflective yet propulsive mission statement, a mature, weathered exploration of Westerman’s pre-established palette in which his voice wraps around the track in full effect.

Speaking of the track, Will Westerman said: “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.”

“About Leaving” is the second single to be released from A Jackal’s Wedding, following the synth-drenched “Adriatic” last month, an immersive swirl of layered vocals and shifting textures that balances abstraction with emotional clarity, delivering a song that feels both elusive and deeply familiar.

Westerman today also announces a run of headline shows in the UK, Europe and North America for Spring 2026 with dates in London, Dublin, Bristol, Paris and Brooklyn NY, Toronto, Chicago and more. This follows an Autumn tour as special guests of Nation of Language across North America, Europe and the UK, which includes a London show at Roundhouse on 12 November 2025. A full tour routing is below, with new shows in bold. Tickets for the headline shows will go on sale on 3 October 2025 at 10am local time. Ticket link here.

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.

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

Listen to “About Leaving” here, and watch the music video below.

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.

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