“Patiently Waiting For This To Ruin My Life”: Avery Anna is All of Us as Noah Kahan Shares Haunting New Clip of ‘The Great Divide’

Noah Kahan SZN is fast approaching.

We all associate the rainy, cold and somewhat depressing months of late Fall and Winter with the Vermont native, courtesy of his 2022 opus, Stick Season, which found Kahan delving into the complex feelings that surface during this isolating period.

However, the ‘Northern Attitude’ hitmaker is now gearing up to introduce us to a brand new ambience and mood, with Kahan rumoured to be readying his long-awaited - emphasis on long - album for a Spring 2026 release. As we outlined earlier in the week, due to his continued cryptic “the last of the bug” clues, we suspect Kahan is preparing to drop the project on Friday, March 20th - the first day of Spring.

And now, we've just been treated to a brand new snippet of his fan-favourite unreleased song, ‘The Great Divide’, featuring more built-out, angsty production compared to the acoustic rendition we've been playing on repeat in recent months. The caption contains another nod to his “the last of the bugs” imagery, with Kahan sharing, “only the last of the bugs can hear this”. The Spring-themed lyric is a line from the final song on Stick Season, ‘The View Between The Villages’.

This all but confirms his next album is on the horizon, and that, as he's hinted in the past, ‘The Great Divide’ will be the cornerstone of the project - and will likely be the lead single. Kahan previously revealed that he didn't include ‘The Great Divide’ on his 2024 Live From Fenway Park project because it was crucial to his forthcoming era.

Avery Anna, who joined Kahan at REDWEST Festival late last year for a haunting cover of Jason Isbell's ‘If We Were Vampires’, has taken to the comments beneath this new snippet of ‘The Great Divide’ to express her excitement for the track.

Anna has gushed, “patiently waiting for this to ruin my life”, and honestly, we couldn't relate more. ‘The Great Divide’ hits that classic Noah Kahan sweet-spot of containing perceptive, visceral lyrics while revolving around an anthemic, infectious hook that we'll no doubt be bellowing at the tops of our lungs come the summer. This latest rendition features a fiery, newly added electric guitar solo, elevating the turmoil and turbulence that underpins much of ‘The Great Divide’.

It finds Kahan pleading with a friend or a lover who has become increasingly religious not to fret too much about existential issues, like the quality of their soul or their fate in the afterlife. He heartrendingly underlines that he hopes they instead worry about all the “ordinary s*** in life, rather than getting caught up in the anxiety and perfectionism that he sees in them (“I hope you sеttle down, I hope you marry rich / I hope you're scared of only ordinary shit / Like murderers and ghosts and cancer on your skin / And not your soul and what He might do with it”).

Don't be mistaken, ‘The Great Divide’ is not outrightly anti-religion, rather, Kahan is simply warning his friend not to succumb to the obsessive ritualism and constant fear that they are experiencing as a result of their concerns about their spirituality.

It's a comforting and loving ode, with Kahan wanting the best for his friend, as opposed to being some broader attack on faith, and we can't wait to hear the full version very soon...

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