On 31 October Leah Rye will release her new studio album Room of Disbelief. The album was written on national park Veluwe in The Netherlands and in Berlin. Produced and mixed by Tim Schakel with Leah Rye on co-production and the master was done by Jerboa Mastering (Pommelien Thijs, Hooverphonic). The new single I’m Coming Over is out now.
Leah Rye creates alternative pop music that invites you to truly feel — offering a space to explore emotions without rushing to fix them. Her sound is a delicate balance between light and shadow, connection and solitude. On Room of Disbelief, Leah’s music feels more organic and intimate than ever before. The album was born during a solitary retreat in a holiday cottage, where uncertainty and self-doubt took center stage. This mental 'room of disbelief' became both the album’s central metaphor and its philosophical backbone—a place of doubt you can get stuck in, but also one you can choose to leave. Leah Rye explaines: “I started writing while alone in a forest cottage in the Veluwe. At first, it felt unbearable. Fear consumed me, I felt estranged from myself, and sleep was elusive. From that struggle came the title track, Room of Disbelief. Despite my career taking off after my debut record Symbiosis (2023), I was overwhelmed by insecurity. That feeling of uncertainty is something I keep returning to. Now, I can name it, even joke: ‘I’m in that room again.’ As humans, we’re drawn to negativity, which fascinates me. How do we so easily forget how lucky we are?”
Her dreamy and cinematic sound moves between singer-songwriter and pop noir, with influences from Patrick Watson, Massive Attack, Lana Del Rey and Radiohead, among others. The album's production was deliberately kept minimalist and pure: all sounds were shaped directly on recording, making the result sound natural and unadorned. Piano, ethereal soundscapes and subtle percussion make up the soundscape, with Leah Rye's distinctive voice taking centre stage.
The new single I'm Coming Over shows a lighter side of the album and is about unconditional love and friendship and how we sometimes talk around big feelings to keep the moment light-hearted. "I started with the drum groove on this track because I wanted something playful, something light. The chorus emerged from that pretty quickly - the feeling of finally being able to dance in the sunlight again after a long dark period. The line ‘Do You Wonder If It's Gonna Rain’ is a nod to the fact that, as humans, we are always quick to think about the next thing - the future - everything that could possibly go wrong. And that even after sunshine there will always be rain again but you can grow through that and not be blown over by it." Watch the video below.
Live:
7 november – Paradiso, Amsterdam
8 november – Grenswerk, Venlo
9 november – Nieuwe Nor, Heerlen
20 november – A-Theater, Groningen
21 november – Nobel, Leiden
22 november – Ekko, Utrecht
Watch I'm Coming Over here!