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May 21, 2026 By Caleb Campbell Photography by Bella Peterson

Chicago indie rock band Widemouth first formed in a Northwestern University dorm basement, with fellow singer/songwriters Mak Carnahan and Jamie Eder playing Paul Simon and Big Thief covers. Since then, the pair filled out their line-up with the addition of drummer Lily Mitchell and former bassist Levi Salzman, later replaced by their current bassist Pat Pilch. The band debuted with their 2024 EP, Well, capturing their early love for rough-hewn indie songwriting, and later this month, they’re set to share their forthcoming debut album, No Gasoline.

The record finds them conjuring up a sound that feels reminiscent of winding alt country indie like Waxahatchee, grimy, sun-fried fare like Wednesday, and expressive, road-tested Midwestern rockers like Ratboys. All of these influences percolate together on the record’s title track, and its previous single, “Hotel Pool.” Today, the band are sharing another new track from the album, “Raincoat,” premiering with Under the Radar.

“Raincoat” takes a sprawling, open-hearted approach to the band’s sound, working in quiet acoustic chords, spectral pedal steel swells, and golden-hued vocal harmonies. Yet, despite the track’s soft touch, it also feels like a raw, ramshackle affair, even when it lifts off atop of banjos and percussion in its closing moments. Carnahan and Eder trace bleary feelings of boredom and dissociation, zooming in on small environnmental details to paint a picture of placcid surroundings and roiling inner turmoil: “Home for the summer / Called a friend to watch the dotted lines / Focus on the plaster / Maybe then I’ll know what’s on my mind / I could see that there’s nothing in here but the shoes on your feet and the raincoat / Going to be around long enough now. Can we talk about how it’ll be? / And now you’re wearing that look in your eyes like a firefly in a window / And you’re keeping time.”

“Mak and I wrote this song together over Facetime and refused to hang up until we had a complete chorus,” Eder says. “Most of the lyrics are about dissociation I was feeling after coming home from college,” Carnahan adds.

Check out the song and accompanying video below. No Gasoline is out on May 29th via Urban Scandal Records. Pre-order the album here.