Alternative Artist Leyla Ebrahimi Releases Her Debut EP & Tour Dates

One of alternative music’s most exciting new voices, Leyla Ebrahimi, releases her debut EP, Planet You Forgot Me. Out now on Deerfield Records / Interscope Records, the six-song set is a sonically bold and emotionally immersive project that captures love’s dissolution in all of its chaotic, crushing, cathartic glory. Stream Planet You Forgot Me HERE and watch the exuberant official video for “i’m a little flower” HERE.

Leyla is ringing in the project’s release with a special house show in Los Angeles tomorrow night, Saturday, June 6, with support from camille blackman, presented by Sonder Music Group. Tickets can be found HERE. She’s also just been announced as support on Holly Humberstone’s Cruel World Tour, joining June 21. View the full itinerary below and more info HERE.

Co-produced by Alexander 23 (Olivia Rodrigo, Reneé Rapp) and Leyla’s go-to collaborator Shane Pielocik, the EP matches the New York City-based artist’s every feeling with music that races through genres and textures — dark synth-pop, dreamy dance-punk, blaring indie fuzz, intimate acoustics, soaring rock — often within a single song. For her part, Leyla moves between conversational runs and searing shouts as she delivers her unvarnished yet poetic lyrics.

Said Leyla, “I wrote the song ‘planet you forgot me’ while I was backpacking thousands and thousands of miles away from home, on what felt like the edge of the world. I left for this trip after I celebrated a year of sobriety on some eat pray love bullshit I guess, but the truth was, I wasn’t sure if I’d ever return to New York. I had no idea how much this song would change my life. How it would grow to change the ways in which I write, experience, and perform my music. How it would inform my decision to go back to New York because I just had to see the concept through. ‘planet you forgot me’ is six minutes and one second long. That’s a long fucking song. And to think there was even more that I had to say. This EP is a sonic archive of a love story. And I lived every second of it. And because none of us are terminally unique, it’s possible you lived it too. For anyone who has ever loved fiercely, and lost brutally, this is Planet You Forgot Me.”

Planet You Forgot Me takes its name from Leyla’s 2025 independent breakout — a stunning six-minute tribute to unshakable post-breakup yearning that now opens the EP followed by “i’m a little flower” with all of its explosive, manic energy. The song moves through rapid jags of rhythm, bursts of instrumentation, and swelling moments of hope as our heroine follows her fixation through a series of intense scenes and revelations: “I’m outside your house, making wishes on the moon / Asking, ‘If there’s still a flame, does it lead me back to you?’ / ‘Will I feel like this forever? Do we ever see it through?’” The music video finds Leyla far from the cityscape of the song, literally touching grass and letting loose all of those pent-up feelings as she jumps on a trampoline, sets off 2-liter cola volcanoes, and wades neck deep in a creek.

The EP also includes the recently released “I Know You’re The Moon” — which revisits the moment Leyla realized her romance was doomed — and the scream-along single “I’m Sorry Maria.” That breakthrough track not only earned Leyla an opening slot at Wet Leg’s sold-out Las Vegas show in April, but also elicited raves from Stereogum, who said, “‘I’m Sorry Maria’ starts out as a murky swirl, though it already has a pulse. The song quickly rises into something more cathartic, and it packs a whole lot of dynamic changes into its classically structured three minutes and 47 seconds. Check out the f*cking bridge on this thing! That’s how you do it!”

Planet You Forgot Me cements Leyla’s arrival following a series of singles that introduced her genre-agnostic approach and gift for raw emotion. Within the past year, she has also shared: “i’m too pretty for this,” which hit Spotify’s Young & Free playlist; “nobody matters but You,” which she brought to On the Radar Radio; and “i don’t like being left behind,” which, KCRW said, “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.”

Leyla is quickly proving herself to be a can’t-miss live act. After playing her first-ever headliners late last year — at Hollywood’s School Night and Brooklyn’s Union Pool, where she used to barback while secretly working on music — she brought her full live band to Del Water Gap’s New Haven homecoming concert and New York’s GIRL NOISE festival in March. She’s also recently shared moving performance videos for “I’m Sorry Maria (Live)” and “I Know You’re The Moon (Live),” bringing the Planet You Forgot Me tracks to life.

While Planet You Forgot Me is certainly a culmination of Leyla’s rise and an act of deeply personal release, it’s also the opening salvo in what’s sure to be a long and thrilling career. Stay tuned for much more from Leyla Ebrahimi.

Leyla Ebrahimi, Planet You Forgot Me EP
1. “planet you forgot me”
2. “i’m a little flower”
3. “I’m Sorry Maria”
4. “I Know You’re The Moon”
5. “This graveyard is for lovers”
6. “you forgot me (planet reprise)”

Leyla Ebrahimi Tour Dates
Jun 06 – Los Angeles, CA @ 2627 Orchard Ave
Jun 21 – Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre *
Jun 22 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex – The Grand *
Jun 24 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox *
Jun 25 – Vancouver, BC, Canada @ The Commodore Ballroom *
Jun 26 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater *
Jun 28 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore *
Jun 29 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre *
* supporting Holly Humberstone

ABOUT LEYLA EBRAHIMI
New York City based artist Leyla Ebrahimi is only a year into a blossoming career, and she’s already proven the power of her genre-fluid approach, unvarnished yet poetic lyrics, and gift for transmitting raw emotion. With a voice equally suited to conversational runs and searing shouts, she freely traverses dark synth-pop, dreamy dance-punk, blaring indie fuzz, and intimate acoustics — often within a single song. It all began, fittingly enough, in a moment of joyous chaos two summers ago when Leyla was back home in Reston, VA, having dinner with her large Persian-American family as they laughed, bickered, and spoke over one another in English and Farsi. It hit her: She was hearing the soundtrack of her life. So she slyly recorded the meal, then snuck upstairs to her childhood bedroom, picked up a guitar, looped the audio, and made her first song, “if there is a light it’s burning out.” Leyla hasn’t looked back since and while her methods continue to evolve — she often works with co-producers Alexander 23 (Olivia Rodrigo, Reneé Rapp) and Shane Pielocik — her music is infused with an almost kismetic sense of intimacy, urgency, and realness. After signing with Deerfield Records / Interscope Records in 2025, she has released a series of singles, each of which races through a beautifully intense, powerfully cathartic tumult of feelings and sounds in a mad rush toward revelatory personal truth. Leyla’s debut EP Planet You Forgot Me is out now.