Noah Kahan returns with first single off fourth album "The Great Divide"

Calling all “last of the bugs,” this spring/summer season is looking very promising as revered artist Noah Kahan releases his newest single, “The Great Divide.” This song serves as the first track off of his upcoming fourth studio album, The Great Divide, out April 24.

After having teased the song on multiple occasions, from performing it sporadically at live shows to teasing it on a separate TikTok account called “The Last of the Bugs,” many fans of Kahan are excitedly waiting for what will arrive between now and the album’s release.

Fans have already begun to theorize what this new single could potentially represent in the artist’s lyrical storytelling journey, but there seem to be two themes that are apparent in both in this song and previous ones: religious trauma and reckless friendships/ relationships.

In “The Great Divide,” the lyrics suggest that said trauma-bonded relationships cause more pain and destruction than good; just because two people “hurt” in the same way, doesn’t mean they show respect or mutual, healthy affection toward one another. Becoming someone else’s savior in their own destructive narrative is dangerous: “We got cigarette burns in the same side of our hands, we ain’t friends / We’re just morons, who broke skin in the same spot.”