“I Saw The Mountains” Just Proved Noah Cyrus Is the Most Underrated Artist of Our Generation

Noah Cyrus has formally reeled us back into her dreamy universe by releasing her shimmering, profoundly suggestive new single, “I Saw The Mountains.” On all streaming platforms now, the song is accompanied by a just-as-gorgeous visual directed by regular collaborator Rudy Grazziani, and it’s nothing short of a spiritual one.

This is not merely another solo. It’s a re-launch. A renaissance. A shining rebirth of an artist who refuses to let genre or expectation confine her.

A COSMIC BALLAD THAT OWES NOTHING TO COUNTRY AND ALT

Lauded for walking the fine line between Appalachian soul and alt-universe lullabies, 25-year-old Noah Cyrus has dropped her most hauntingly beautiful work. “I Saw The Mountains” is a wall of sound that does not crash. Instead, it ascends. It lifts. It enfolds around your chest like a whispered secret from another dimension.

Written with creepy beauty and festooned in somber harmonies, the song is a valediction to the Appalachian tradition that informs Cyrus’s Nashville upbringing. But wait. This is not a traditional country. This is a cosmic country. This is ghost-hymn pop. This woman clawed her way through grief, fame, and family soap opera, reaching the apex of her power with but a guitar and an imagination.

THE VIDEO: A FEVER DREAM OF NOSTALGIA AND STILLNESS

The accompanying music video, edited by Rudy Grazziani, is a visual masterclass in restraint and transcendence. Cyrus is seen in expansive landscapes: empty horizons, rolling hills, the kind of places where silence can be perceived above noise. In billowy whites and terracottas, she wanders like a modern-day oracle. It’s Terrence Malick by way of Lana Del Rey or something altogether else, Untainted Noah.

The clip does not just augment the song. It surpasses it. It turns “I Saw The Mountains” into a ritual, not a tune.

BUILDING ON A MOMENTUM THAT CAN’T BE STOPPED

Cyrus’s final release, the critically adored “Don’t Put It All On Me” with Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, set the stage for this new, experimental chapter. The track, hailed by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NME, and American Songwriter, solidified her as more than “Miley’s little sister.” It marked her as one of the most significant young alternative voices on the job today.

And now, “I Saw The Mountains” continues that climb, not following trends or vying for chart supremacy. It is expanding the landscape of what emotional, honest, genre-bending music can sound like in 2025.

NOAH’S INTENTION: HEALING THROUGH SOUND

In a statement released with the release, Cyrus had to say:

We all must heal from our history and be here in the present. That’s what music does for me, and this new group of songs was written with that in mind. I want to be able to have that sense of a comforting friend who is familiar with and heals us all.

This ain’t lip service. Cyrus’ music has been therapeutically inflected her entire career. From the wreckage of “July” to the galaxy-sized hopelessness of “The End Of Everything,” she’s never sounded so much about performance as about confession.

And with “I Saw The Mountains,” she isn’t even confessing. She’s communing.

WHAT’S NEXT: THE UNIVERSE ISN’T DONE WITH HER

Although Cyrus has not publicly announced full plans for an upcoming album, the otherworldly tone of “I Saw The Mountains” suggests fairly insistently that there will be a larger body of work ahead, one that does not hesitate to show vulnerability, feels at ease with spiritual loneliness, does not crave mainstream approval, and receives underground worship.

If “Don’t Put It All On Me” was the doormat, and “I Saw The Mountains” was the door, then what follows is the journey.

Get ready.

“I Saw The Mountains” is available now on all platforms.

Watch the official music video below:

More from Noah Cyrus is coming soon. And if this is her direction, we’re ready to follow her into the clouds.