Small Pond Talk New Album Soft Burn and Share “Silver Coin”
Small Pond return with “Silver Coin,” the first single from their upcoming sophomore album Soft Burn, out October 21.
INDIENEWS
SILVIJE NOVAK
8/20/20262 min read
Photo: Adam Gerhold
Portland, Maine indie rock band Small Pond have announced their sophomore album, Soft Burn, which is set to arrive October 21. Along with the announcement, the band have shared their new single “Silver Coin,” which is out now on streaming platforms.
“Silver Coin” focuses on relationships, identity and the experience of looking at your own actions from the outside. Vocalist Molly McDevitt explained the meaning behind the track: "‘Silver Coin’ is about looking at a relationship from the outside almost like a third person perspective, watching yourself and not always liking what you see,” says Molly McDevitt. “It's about the disconnect that comes when you know you're not showing up the way you want to for the people who matter to you, and the discomfort of admitting that.”
The band say that Soft Burn was not originally planned around one specific concept. Instead, the songs came together across different periods, with some dating back to McDevitt's solo EP and others written between the band's two recording sessions.
“We didn’t go into this album with a concept. A lot of these songs came from different places and different times, some dating back to Molly’s solo EP, others (like “soft burn” and “spit”) written in the gaps between our two recording sessions, one in September and one the following February. That’s just how we write: pretty freeform at first, word-vomiting whatever comes out, then refining it into a song. So the concept of the record really revealed itself to us afterward, in hindsight, rather than being something we set out to make. Looking back, we realized the songs kept circling the same tension, something soft pulled against something cold and hard.”
The band also had a clear idea of the sound they wanted to explore across the album, moving through different styles while also making room for heavier songs towards the second half.
“What we did know going in was the sound we wanted to chase. We wanted to span genres the way we always have, from the pop-leaning production of “everything’s quiet” to the funkier roots of songs like “darlene” and “holy,” while pushing into heavier, harder territory on the back half of the record. None of us listen to the same music or write the same way, so whatever comes out when we’re in a room together ends up being its own kind of amalgamation, which feels very Small Pond to us.”
Small Pond will also be playing several shows around the release of Soft Burn, with dates scheduled in Maine, New York and Boston. The band will play Portland House of Music on October 8, followed by a show at Cassette in New York on October 23 and Deep Cuts in Boston on October 28.
Soft Burn arrives October 21, with “Silver Coin” available to listen to now:
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