Cedarsmoke has dropped their new single titled ‘Something Over Nothing’ ahead of their third album ‘Under The Rainbow’, releasing October 31st.
‘Under The Rainbow’ is already an album I’m looking forward to. Cedarsmoke’s last single is something I remember well, and ‘Something Over Nothing’ feels like the end of a trilogy that segues into that next chapter of something good.
There is an aura about this song. Something that takes you away and brings you back with a new memory. A little better and a little fuller. A solid song that chimes all the way through and makes you listen with interest. And, while it’s not a song that reaches out and grabs you, it holds you tight and gives you a better appreciation of music, the way indie music did when it was called alternative.
About Cedarsmoke & ‘Something Over Nothing’
A Brisbane/Meanjin band long admired for their lyric-driven approach and genre-bending sound, Cedarsmoke continue to evolve with every release. Since their 2016 debut, they have moved restlessly between folk, rock, country, and psychedelia, always with singer-songwriter Jon Cloumassis’s storytelling at the centre. Their upcoming third full-length album embraces this adventurous streak fully, with each track tied to a colour and a theme, creating a record that is as expansive as it is intimate.
With ‘Something Over Nothing’, Cedarsmoke frames life’s extremes as essential, suggesting it is better to embrace the turbulence of joy and sorrow than to settle for stillness. Upbeat and energetic yet tinged with an undercurrent of sadness, it recalls a kind of indie rock where poetic storytelling and ragged honesty sit side by side, turning introspection into something vital and alive.
In keeping with the album’s colour-coded theme, the track shines in yellow, symbolising vitality, excitement and adventure. Its imagery draws on the rising and setting of the sun as a reflection of life’s cycle, casting the song as both a celebration of sweet beginnings and an acceptance of sour endings.
“Something Over Nothing is about the extremes of life. It sits on the side that it’s better to live through the ups and downs of than to suffer a life of boredom. Focused on joy and sadness and the cyclical nature of life and death, it contemplates the rising of the sun in the east (representing birth) and setting in the west (representing death),” Cloumassis shares.
Both anxious and anthemic, ‘Something Over Nothing’ tangles restless electronic beats with the organic drive of acoustic drums, flickering synth loops and spectral eBow guitars. The textures feel raw but magnetic, shifting between urgency and intimacy as Cedarsmoke wrap their bittersweet lyricism in pulsing rhythms and ghostly sustain. It is music that sits on the fault line between joy and melancholy, confessional at its core yet propelled by a nervous energy that refuses to stand still.
‘Something Over Nothing’ is a restless hymn to life’s sharp edges and fleeting joys, paving the way for Cedarsmoke’s third album ‘Under The Rainbow’, arriving October 31.
Featured image by Thomas Oliver.
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