Article Contributed by Big Hassle Media
Published on 2026-10-06
Photo credit: Adam Gerhold
New England indie rock band Small Pond is thrilled to share “Everything’s Quiet,” the latest sampling off their forthcoming Alex Farrar-produced album, Soft Burn, due out on October 21.
“Everything’s Quiet” follows the release of “Silver Coin,” a song 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.
Small Pond writes from the space between clarity and confusion: relationships, identity, growing up, change, and the quiet moments that don't always have words yet. Music is how the band slows those experiences down and makes sense of them together. The goal isn't to offer answers. It's to make space for the experience of figuring things out while you're still inside it, so listeners feel understood, grounded, and a little less alone in what they're going through.
“‘Everything's Quiet’ is another song about self reflection, but where a lot of the record reflects on specific relationships, this one reaches for something bigger: aging, growing older, and the process of letting go of who you used to be. The verses are introspective, tied to small things like an impulsive haircut or the way your vision changes when you’re staring at something too long. The song’s major theme is one about holding onto the people who ground you. ‘it's a safe kind of fade out, get lost in a thick crowd’ is a line about the safety of blending in, with the follow up ‘the room’s loud, but looking at you now, everything's quiet’ being the realization that you have one person to hold on to even as everything around you shifts. Musically, this is the most produced song on the record and probably it’s strongest pop moment. The picking pattern in the verses came from a practice Molly missed after getting sick, when guitarist Ian started experimenting with it and the band built the song around it from there. The band’s producer Alex Farrar pushed the arrangement further with background vocals and extra texture, and while this is certainly the most polished song on the record it remains raw, especially vocally. ”
All tour information and up to date news can be found at smallpond.band.
Small Pond On Tour
October 8 - Portland, ME - Portland House of Music
October 17 - Belfast, ME - All Roads Festival
October 22 - Amherst, MA - The Drake
October 23 - New York, NY - Cassette
October 24 - Philadelphia, PA - Space 1026
October 25 - Washington, DC - Pie Shop
October 28 - Boston, MA - Deep Cuts
From the band:
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.
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.
We recorded with Alex at Drop of Sun Studios, and he was a huge part of shaping this sound. He let us find our own answers, gently steering when we needed it and keeping us from just copying our influences. Having a third party in the room made the hard, sometimes frustrating work of finishing a song so much easier, especially recording with people who know each other as well as we do. Everyone at the studio was kind and grounded, which put us at ease walking into a space that big for the first time. We drove down and back twice, 14 hours each way, all in Joe’s car… an experience in itself.
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