Noah Kahan faces the pressure to follow up his breakthrough hit, “Stick Season,” in the new trailer for Noah Kahan: Out of Body, out April 13 on Netflix.
Directed by Nick Sweeney, the trailer opens with Kahan being asked what he looks at on his phone directly after performing a concert. “Occasionally I’ll check Twitter, see what the response to the show was,” he tells the camera. “And if it’s not good, I barricade myself in mu room and order Taco Bell. And if it’s good, I barricade myself in my room with Taco Bell.”
Kahan reveals in the clip that he was “close to giving up music” prior to breaking out with “Stick Season,” written in his rural home of Vermont. He then looks onward and faces the immense task of releasing another album, grappling with fame and hardship.
“I know that I’m most happy when I’m home and when I’m making music,” he says. “And that’s what I’m most scared of — that I have to be in my mom’s house, that I have to be in Vermont, that I have to be struggling or in pain to make music.”
The film was first announced last summer, and premiered at the 2026 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas earlier this month, where it won the 24 Beats Per Second Audience Award. As Kahan told fans on social media, he had some anxiety about the project, “because it’s personal and some things I touch on are painful to think about and be reminded of.” But, he added “anything scary or hard is usually worth sharing with the world. Maybe it will reach one of you in a time when you need it. Maybe you’ll see some of your own family in mine. Either way, I hope you love it.”
Kahan recently announced his fourth album, The Great Divide, out April 24 via Mercury Records. He released the title track in January, and followed it up with the second single, “Porch Light,” on March 13. The latter marked his first collaboration with Aaron Dessner, recorded between Dessner’s Long Pond Studio in Hudson, New York, and Gold Pacific Studios in Nashville. He co-wrote it with Dessner, and produced it with Dessner and his usual collaborator, Gabe Simon.
