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The album’s first single, the title track, drops Friday.

The wait for Noah Kahan‘s new album is nearly over.

Two months after telling fans at a benefit concert in Boston, “My album is officially done,” the New England native has released a name and release date for his new project.

“From a long silence forms a divide, a great expanse demanding attention,” Kahan wrote on Instagram. “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, spiraling dreams that have materialized in front of me,” the singer-songwriter 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.”

Kahan’s fourth studio album, “The Great Divide,” will arrive April 24, he said. The album’s first single, the title track, will come out Friday.

“The songs are the words I would say if I could,” Kahan shared in the social media post. “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.”

The two-time Grammy-nominated artist has been teasing this project for some time, including via a secret TikTok account with the username “thelastofthebugs.” Though he treated fans to a live album from his two sold-out Fenway Park shows in 2024, Kahan last released a studio album in 2022 with “Stick Season.”

At the concert in support of The Busyhead Project and the Red Sox Foundation in November, Kahan performed three unreleased songs from the new project, including “Deny, Deny, Deny.”

“It f****** sucked to make, but I’ve never been more proud of the music that’s going to be out for you guys,” Kahan told the audience then. “I know it’s been awhile, I’m sorry. I’ve been through a lot and making this album was really hard, but I think it’s going to be pretty special.”

Pre-order and pre-save options for Kahan’s new album are available on his website.

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