Netflix issued a trailer Tuesday for “Noah Kahan: Out of Body,” with scenes promising the April 13 release will go well behind the scenes in documenting the personal life of one of the biggest breakout artists of the 2020s, as well as show him in his glory as he becomes a stadium act for the first time.
The trailer for the documentary can be seen here. The Nick Sweeney-directed documentary premiered in March at the South by Southwest Film Festival and won the 24 Beats Per Second Audience Award, voted on by viewers attending SXSW’s selection of music docs.
The trailer begins with Kahan admitting he checks in on X after a show to assess whether there was any negative reaction to the concert, then shows footage of the Vermont-based artist headlining what is effectively his hometown stadium, Fenway Park, on the heels of his smash “Stick Season” album. “We brought my mom’s living room on the stage,” he tells the crowd, “and we can’t quite replicate the generational trauma, but we did our best to fit it in.” A relative asks Kahan, “Do you ever worry that this is the peak?” “That’s all I think about,” the singer responds.
The preview keeps things on the lighter side compared to some of the heavier subjects that reviews and Kahan himself have said the documentary gets into. The “Out of Body” title seems to have a double meaning, as in a star possibly having an out-of-body experience in reaching new highs in front of an audience, but also possibly referring to the body-image issues Kahan has talked about struggling with.
In an Instagram post he put up when the documentary was premiering at SXSW, Kahan went a little bit more into what fans should expect from the film.
“It kind of captured like a year and a half of my life being on the tour for ‘Stick Season’ and just how ‘Stick Season’ affected my life, my family’s life,” he said in the clip. “But it also gets into some really personal stuff… If you’ve listened to my music for a while, I do talk about my family and I talk a lot about my self-image. trying to get into body dysmorphia and some of the mental health struggles I’ve had, but it’s definitely very much front and center in this documentary… It’ll be the first time I’ve really talked about it in a way that wasn’t through music. So I’m obviously a little nervous about kind of baring my soul in that way. It’s very vulnerable and it’s hard for me to watch, but also something I think is really important to share. So I just wanted you guys to know that I appreciate you guys giving me the space to talk about these things.”
Kahan also has a new album coming out, “The Great Divide,” due out on April 24, less than two weeks after the Netflix film is released. The title track and “Porch Light” have already been released to DSPs.
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