Stick Season [2xLP]

Noah Kahan’s music uses an infused blend of indie, folk, pop, and country instrumentals, while his lyricism elicits deep sentiment. This combination evokes many emotions for the listener to interpret. Specifically for me, it invokes a type of nostalgia for something that I have not yet experienced. Anemoia: a word that I have recently discovered which I can attribute to learning from the novel that I recently finished and reviewed, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin, is defined as being, “nostalgia for a time you’ve never known”. What this entails is entirely up to the interpreter, whether it be the feeling as if you’d been born in the wrong decade, or a shared worldly experience for which you have not yet felt, such as moving away from home for the first time. For me, Noah Kahan’s lyricism and melody make me long for my hometown which I have never truly left. Or maybe anemoia is making me long for a hometown to which I never truly belonged and which does not exist in this time-space continuum. Either way, Noah Kahan is the epitome of the nostalgic experience. —Le Sabre