ABOUT
Liya Shapiro is a London-based singer-songwriter exploring the depths of love, identity, mental health and emotional fragility through her music. Moving between alternative rock, dream pop and chamber rock, her sound is immersive and cinematic – a reflection of a post-genre approach that favours honesty over convention. At once delicate and defiant, Liya's songs linger in the space between yearning and self-reclamation, inviting listeners into a world shaped by longing, loneliness and the search for meaning.
Liya's musical journey began with Mirror, a soulful reflection on vulnerability and first heartbreak. But it was her single The Thing that marked her arrival as a distinct voice – a slow-burning descent into emotional confusion,
fusing shadowy synths and dissonant guitars with poetic ambiguity. Rose Garden, her third single, introduced a more romantic tone, drawing on dream pop textures and nostalgic lyricism to explore time, memory and the fleeting nature of youth.
Her next release, Burning Bridges, pushed her artistry into darker, more chaotic territory, marking the beginning of a new chapter in her creative journey. A visceral exploration of self-destruction and survival, it begins as a delicate piano ballad before fracturing into explosive, guitar-driven rock. This track captures the tumultuous nature of an emotional collapse, alternating between whispered vulnerability and fierce sonic ruptures.
Hold Me Tight revealed a more confident and sensual side of her artistry while remaining tethered to longing. A groovy, guitar-driven pop-rock anthem, it transforms verses written years ago in the wake of unrequited love into something newly self-aware and hopeful. The track pairs confessional intimacy with sultry swagger, moving between vulnerability and assertion as it turns old wounds into momentum.
Her latest single, Another Woman, marks a bold arrival into chamber rock – her most fully realised sound to date. Written in a single sitting after discovering that someone she'd spent years trying to forget had moved on, the song captures the disorienting ache of feelings that have nowhere left to go. Soft, melancholic verses swell into a cathartic, string-laced crescendo, arriving at a distorted outro that feels less like an ending and more like a release. It is not a song about obsession but about the quiet ambush of unresolved grief – and the slow, painful work of finally letting go.
Another Woman is also the title of her debut EP, out May 29, 2026. Going back to her roots and weaving in the world of classical music – a direction shaped in part by her mother, a violinist and conductor – the record feels like both a reckoning and a turning point: a rite of passage that closes one chapter and opens another. Chamber rock, the sonic home she has been moving toward all along, finally gives her songs the weight and space they were always reaching for.
Her songwriting is deeply personal yet invites projection. The lyrics are intimate but never didactic, allowing listeners to find their own reflections in them. There's a cinematic quality to everything she creates – each track feels like a still from a larger film. Through her music, Liya builds a world that's atmospheric, emotionally charged and unmistakably her own. She is not afraid to be vulnerable, not afraid to be strange, not afraid to hurt, creating songs that feel less like products and more like portals – haunting, immersive and very human.
