“Raincoat” by Widemouth

Widemouth new single “Raincoat,” the track is off their debut album No Gasoline, available May 29th, via Urban Scandal Records. The song features lead songwriters, vocalists, and guitarists Mak Carnahan and Jamie Eder’s harmonies, with an acoustic arrangement that slowly builds with banjo, steel guitar, and percussion. The track is accompanied by a self-directed video. “Mak and I wrote this song together over Facetime and refused to hang up until we had a complete chorus,” Eder notes. “Most of the lyrics are about dissociation I was feeling after coming home from college,” Carnahan adds.

No Gasoline was recorded in a rural Indiana barn turned “bare-bones but extremely cozy” studio. “There’s a lot of anger and fear in these songs…a lot of heartbreak, grief, and stories from childhood; the patient exploration of old pain that’s a cornerstone of sobriety. But at the core of it all is friendship,” they explain. “Not just writing about friendship, although there is a lot of that. But more so that the album itself is an act of friendship, empathy, and community. We write these songs together, so all of the pain we’re expressing is shared.”

Widemouth is led by Carnahan and Eder, alongside drummer Lily Mitchell and bassist Pat Pilch who joined in December 2025, former bassist Levi Saltzman co-wrote and performs on No Gasoline. The band began when Carnahan and Eder started playing Paul Simon and Big Thief covers in the basement of a Northwestern University dorm in the summer of 2023.

Co-produced by Jack Henry (Friko, Free Range) and Sam Genualdi. The album was informed in part by Carnahan’s artistic upbringing–her mother is an actor and director, her father a writer and producer, and her maternal grandparents worked in the arts as well–and Eder’s classic jazz background, but most significantly by their shared love of modern indie rock giants like Wednesday and Waxahatchee, and legends like Gillian Welch.

Pre-order No Gasoline by Widemouth HERE

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