Westerman

UK / songwriting / Partisan Records / Play It Again Sam /
17/11/2023 22:00
13 € + d.d.p with Tessera Hovoc
The English singer-songwriter based in Greece will present for the first time the songs of the wonderful new album “An Inbuilt Fault”, released on May 5 and conceived in the winter of 2020-21 in Italy, during the lockdown. A visceral, powerful, authentic record of pure art.
Among the artworks that had the greatest impact on An Inbuilt Fault – Will Westerman’s second album – were two classic films: Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 allegorical masterpiece The Seventh Seal and Akira Kurosawa’s sociological drama Ikiru of 1952. In entirely different ways, each film follows a protagonist in the throes of an existential crisis, evoking turmoil and stasis, carefully charting his quest for self-understanding and fulfillment.
“I don’t know who I am anymore”, sings Westerman, also recently acclaimed by Perfume Genius. “I’ve forgotten what I was looking for/I’m noticing how the lens turns/More and more when I wonder why”: is a fitting thematic territory for the time when the London-born, Athens-Greece-based singer-songwriter wrote much of this music: the winter of 2020-2021, while stuck in Italy for months, during a period of almost total isolation. Coming off a period of disillusionment with making music, and with the future of his career looking abstract, Westerman wasn’t sure the material he was recording would ever be heard. Creatively, this situation offered a strange kind of freedom and gave way to some of the most adventurous and free-spirited songs of his career.
Though often foreboding, the songs on An Inbuilt Fault never lean towards solipsism or gloomy moralizing. Even the most disheartening songs work the way the most timeless music about depression and mourning does: the performance and arrangement seem to trump sadness. The result is a Westerman mini-epic about being in crisis, stitched together from torn song snippets and spontaneous moments of musical exorcism, which combine to tell a story that takes shape more clearly over several listens.

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