Vinyl Record
Noah Kahan - Stick Season
Noah Kahan - Stick Season on 2LP vinyl. A 2022 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
2LP ยท 2022
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2022 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Stick Season is the moment Noah Kahan stopped sounding like a promising singer-songwriter and started sounding like the author of his own weather system. The album is rooted in Vermont, but its real geography is emotional: empty roads, family rooms, old friends, seasonal dread, shame, homesickness, resentment, recovery and the stubborn pull of where you came from. Kahan's writing works because it is specific without becoming closed off. Northern Attitude sets the frame with guarded warmth; Stick Season turns regional language into a breakup anthem; Orange Juice handles sobriety and return with unusual tenderness; Growing Sideways lets anxiety and therapy sit inside a chorus rather than outside the song. The production keeps one foot in folk-pop and another in communal indie rock, with banjo, acoustic strum, gang vocals and big-room lift arriving when the writing needs release. It is an album about feeling trapped by home and saved by it at the same time.
It matters because Stick Season made regional folk-pop feel newly huge without sanding away the details. Its success came from language that sounded lived-in: not universal by being vague, but universal because the small-town grief, humor and self-reckoning felt sharply observed.
This is the Noah Kahan record to own if you want the breakthrough in full, not just the title-track phenomenon. It sits naturally beside modern folk-pop, emotionally direct indie rock and songwriter albums where place is not scenery but the engine of the whole record.
Warm folk-pop with acoustic drive, banjo color, swelling group vocals, diaristic lyrics, bright hooks and a strong New England melancholy.
Recommended for: Listeners who like folk-pop with detailed storytelling; Fans of songs about home, anxiety, family and return; Collectors building a shelf of 2020s singer-songwriter breakthroughs.
Is Stick Season a folk album? It is folk-rooted, but the choruses and production often move with indie-pop and arena-ready scale. What makes it different from earlier Noah Kahan records? It leans harder into place, plainspoken confession and communal acoustic arrangements, giving his writing a more distinct identity. Is the album more than the hit single? Yes. The title track is the doorway, but Orange Juice, Homesick and Growing Sideways deepen the record's emotional range.