Westerman - Your Hero Is Not Dead Vinyl Record
Westerman's debut album Your Hero Is Not Dead is full of supremely crafted songs about moral, political, and ethical grey areas. It is an album about empathy and compassion, struggle and release, and all the ways we contradict and battle within ourselves. Recorded alongside his close friend and producer Nathan Jenkins (aka Bullion), they find Westerman attempting to resolve external issues by looking inward. Like a young Peter Gabriel in a late capitalist world, Westerman's music falls somewhere between artful soft rock and confessional electronic pop. Westerman writes through his internal conflicts – songwriting is a way for him to grapple with concepts and paradoxes that cannot always be expressed with words, and in doing so he's able to reach resolution and catharsis. "What animates me is when I feel a compulsion to express something in a way that can't be conveyed through conversation." Often, it's a process of "expulsion." He writes about his own writing process – about creativit