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Today, emerging alt-pop artist Leyla Ebrahimi shares her latest sonic rollercoaster of a single, “I Know You’re The Moon,” out now on Deerfield Records / Interscope Records. The new track finds the New York City songwriter revisiting a fateful moment in a doomed relationship in vivid detail, as the music evolves from dreamy bedroom pop to soaring full-band rock. Listen HERE and watch the visual HERE.
On “I Know You’re the Moon,” Leyla retraces the steps that led to an intractably broken heart, back to a meetup in the park with a paramour after some planned time apart — only to learn she lost that person for good. The sound tells a story, too, from the drifting flashback feel of the opening, in which she describes the life she had imagined (“Take you on a tour, kiss you on the bus, the dreams I had for us”), to the song’s back half, where she struggles to break her ex’s gravitational pull and the sonic tides go wild: stormy guitar, pounding drums, shouted feelings.
“Sometimes every rational force in your life seems to be telling you it’s time to let go, but something elemental and completely irrational doesn’t agree,” says Leyla. “This song is about what happens when reality crashes your party-of-one — which you had totally convinced yourself was a party-of-two. Love just sucks sometimes.”
“I Know You’re the Moon” follows Leyla’s April scream-along single “I’m Sorry Maria,” Leyla then followed with a raw performance video — watch HERE.
Both songs reunite Leyla with co-producers Alexander 23 (Olivia Rodrigo, Reneé Rapp) and her go-to collaborator Shane Pielocik. The pair have worked across each of her recent singles, including November’s “i don’t like being left behind,” which, as KCRW praised, “pushes her signature emotional chaos to cinematic heights, bending dark synth-pop and fuzzy indie rock into something raw and luminous. It’s messy, urgent, and beautifully human.”
She also recently played her first headliners — at Hollywood’s School Night and Brooklyn’s Union Pool, where she used to barback while secretly working on music — and brought her full live band to New York’s GIRL NOISE festival as well as opening slots at Del Water Gap’s homecoming concert and Wet Leg’s sold-out Las Vegas show last month.
Bit by bit, Leyla has been unveiling her genre-agnostic approach, unvarnished yet poetic lyrics, and gift for transmitting powerful emotion across a series of singles including “nobody matters but You” — which she brought to On the Radar Radio — and “i’m too pretty for this,” a mix of self-possessed sass and serious vulnerability that landed on Spotify’s Young & Free playlist, among others. She is currently at work on her debut EP.
