Westerman shares Blue Comanche, signs to Play It Again Sam

The new track is his first for Play It Again Sam.

London-based singer-songwriter Westerman has shared new single Blue Comanche and announced his signing to Play It Again Sam. Alongside the news, Westerman has also announced a new tour with shows in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, San Francisco, as well as a date in London at Hoxton Hall on 4 June.

Speaking about the new song, Westerman said: “Blue Comanche is about the inevitability of environmental loss as a consequence of modernisation. I’m not a Luddite, I don’t think we should go back to the Stone Age or anything, but there’s still something profoundly sad about what’s being lost.

“I find party politics frustrating because it’s so cyclical. I’m obsessed with ethics, and politics and ethics can be bad bedfellows. I’m political in a solitary way. There are issues that I think are important and occupy my thoughts, but I struggle with organised politics. In the party system there’s inevitable compromise and concession, which is frustrating. That’s why I like writing, you can say what you want without any dilution.

“I wanted this to be a calming song though, not angry. Today it’s so easy to live in an echo chamber of bad news, but if you look hard you can still see individual acts of kindness everywhere. You have to be engaged and stay sensitive to suffering, but it’s not constructive to live in that space all the time.”

Tickets for the tour will go on sale on 17 January and can be purchased here. Listen to Blue Comanche in the player above.

Tour dates
4 June – London, UK, Hoxton Hall
22 July – Brooklyn, National Sawdust
25 July – Toronto, The Garrison
30 July – Los Angeles, Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
31 July – San Francisco, The Independent