Some bands sing about home. Cigarettes @ Sunset sound like they were carved out of it.

The Boone, North Carolina five-piece are back today with “Appalachian Raised,” a bittersweet new single out now via Lost Highway Records — and if you’ve been waiting for the song that finally captures what makes this band tick, this is the one. Equal parts homecoming and reckoning, it’s a complicated love letter to the hollers, ridgelines, and small-town rhythms that shaped them.

Listen to “Appalachian Raised” on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/search/Cigarettes%20at%20Sunset%20Appalachian%20Raised

“Appalachian Raised” is the first new material from the band — Garrett Dellinger (rhythm guitar, lead vocals), Wells Whitman (bass, backing vocals), Ethan Moore (drums), Sarah Vann (violin, vocals), and Ryland Bagbey (lead guitar) — since their Lost Highway debut EP Possum Rock dropped in March. That six-song set gave a name to their sound (self-coined “Appalachian possum rock,” a heady blend of Americana, indie-rock, and Appalachian folk with punk spirit baked into the ribs), and this new single stretches the concept into full anthem territory.

“‘Appalachian Raised’ is dedicated to our hometown of Boone and the surrounding hollers where we grew up,” says Dellinger. “This song is a reflection of our lives here in western North Carolina, and a celebration of coming home and learning to embrace where we come from instead of running from it.”

Produced by Taylor Kimball (Wyatt Flores, Koe Wetzel), the track leans hard into what makes Cigarettes @ Sunset so magnetic live: Vann’s soulful violin cutting through the mix like a mountain wind, Dellinger’s storytelling nailed to the wall by the band’s hard-driving rhythm section, and a chorus built to be hollered back from the pit. It’s nostalgic without getting sentimental, devastating without wallowing, and life-affirming without ever tipping into saccharine — a tough balance, and one they nail.

The accompanying music video, directed by Will Allen, pushes the song’s sense of place even further. The band performs in a wide-open field with the Blue Ridge Mountains sprawling across the horizon, and it’s exactly the kind of visual this track deserves — big sky, big feelings, no filler.

Context matters here, too. The band’s sense of purpose shifted permanently after Hurricane Helene tore through their region in 2024, and you can feel that weight in “Appalachian Raised.” It’s not just a song about where they’re from; it’s a song about what it means to stay, to rebuild, and to make music that actually connects.

Cigarettes @ Sunset are spending most of 2026 on the road. Tonight they kick off a UK/IE run supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise at O2 Academy Leeds, before heading back stateside in June for dates with repeat tourmates Dexter and The Moonrocks, plus festival stops at Summerfest in Milwaukee (June 20) and Master Musicians Festival in Somerset, Kentucky (July 18). They’ll continue supporting Rainbow Kitten Surprise across North America through the summer and fall, then head to Australia in October for Strummingbird Festival (October 17-18). Full dates are up at cigarettesatsunset.com/tour.

If “Pavement” (4 million-plus Spotify streams and counting) put Cigarettes @ Sunset on the map, “Appalachian Raised” is the song that plants a flag. Hit play, turn it up, and if you’ve got a home you’ve complicated feelings about — this one’s for you, too.