Noah Kahan has teamed up with Netflix on the documentary Out Of Body.
After recently announcing his fourth studio album, The Great Divide, which is set to drop on April 24, the 29-year-old singer-songwriter has shared details of a new film for the streaming giant.
In the deeply personal film, the musician finds himself at a “crossroads” in his career after the huge success of his 2022 breakthrough hit Stick Season.
The blurb reads: “After a whirlwind year of sold-out tours and unprecedented acclaim, he returns to his Vermont roots and family.
“Buoyed by his uncanny wit, he searches for a sense of home and creative inspiration as he confronts the deeply personal struggles that have left him out of sync with himself.”
Director Nick Sweeney noted Noah’s willingness to be vulnerable about the “strange in-between moment” in his life.
He commented: “When we started filming, I had no idea what we’d capture, only that Noah was determined to be honest about everything, especially the messy bits.
“He was in a strange in-between moment, caught in the collision between almost surreal fame and a quieter inner world he’d tried to keep offstage. What we captured over the course of a year surprised me – moments that were thrilling, terrifying, [and] hilarious, often all at once.”
Noah recently wrote on Instagram about the themes on his upcoming LP: “From a long silence forms a divide, a great expanse demanding attention. I stare across it. I see old friends, my father, my mother, my siblings, my younger self, the great state of Vermont.
“I want to scream these feelings, to gesticulate wildly at the figures on the other side, but my voice has grown hoarse and muted after years of climbing a ladder towards the wild, spiralling dreams that have materialised in front of me.”
The folk-pop singer continued: “Instead, I wrote them down next to a piano in Nashville, next to a pond in Guilford, Vermont, in a legendary studio in upstate New York, on a farm with a firetower in Only, Tennessee.
“The songs are the words I would say if I could. They are the fears I dance with in the moments before I drift off to sleep. The music here is my best attempt to delve deeper into the people, places, and feelings that have made me who I am. I am grateful for all of it, for all of you, for listening to them, if you choose to do so.”
His 2022 album Stick Season’s titular track proved to be a huge hit for Noah, who revealed last year that he doesn’t mind his music being called a “snooze fest”.
He playfully joked on social media that he takes it as a “compliment” when people call his work boring, as he would enjoy a “fun and restful” time if there were an actual “snoozing festival”.
Noah wrote on his Instagram Story: “When people call my music a snooze fest I take it as a compliment because to me going to an actual snoozing festival sounds fun and restful.”