If you liked A Jackal's Wedding , good news: Westerman is readying a companion release. The new four-song EP Reception is sourced from the Athens, Greece-based artist's sessions with producer Marta Salogni, but according to Westerman they differ from the main album in important ways. Here's his evocative explanation:

These songs were recorded as part of a larger whole in winter on an island in the middle of Lake Iseo in a newly acquired building without heating, in the snow. It was put forward that there should be an extended version of A Jackal’s Wedding. These songs can be heard as photo negatives of the songs on that record, with the heat having been exchanged for cold.

Maybe it's just because I was blogging about Brandon Flowers this morning, but Reception lead single "L/C" reminds me of latter day Killers in the way it runs Westerman's usual Sting and Dire Straits influences through the heartland rock nostalgia of the War On Drugs.…