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30 OCTOBER 2026 (Toronto, ON) – Following the growing momentum of “Stranger In You,” which has surpassed 31.7 million global streams and inspired more than 3.8 million TikTok creations generating over two billion views, Ebril continues to expand her online audience, inching towards one million monthly listeners. She returns with “Reckless Attitude,” a new single arriving today via Capitol Records/Universal Music Canada. Written and created independently, the track channels romantic vulnerability, impulsiveness and playful abandon into a sound entirely her own.
Moving between images of spring showers, shifting shades of green and the rush of new love, “Reckless Attitude” captures the feeling of surrendering to a connection before you can make sense of it. Ebril describes the track’s sound as “bolder, busier, buggier,” bringing restless, colourful energy to its exploration of desire and spontaneity.
“The song is about flirting with life, being silly, and experiencing the world while you still can,” says Ebril.
An official music video for “Reckless Attitude” is also coming soon.
Ebril celebrated the single with her first-ever release party on October 29 at RCHIVE Studio in Toronto. The free event brought together music, live artwork and performances from Toronto artists, with donations supporting Islamic Relief’s Palestinian aid efforts and Covenant’s homeless support initiatives in Toronto.
Watch footage from Ebril’s “Reckless Attitude” single release party HERE
Following the release, Ebril heads out on a six-date U.S. run, beginning November 17 in Brooklyn, New York, with stops in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
UPCOMING LIVE SHOWS
November 17 Elsewhere Brooklyn, NY
November 19 Nikki Lopez Philadelphia, PA
November 20 Pearl Street Warehouse Washington, DC
November 22 Scubas Tavern Chicago, IL
November 24 The Lost Church San Francisco, CA
November 27 The Echo Los Angeles, CA
About Ebril:
It takes a particular kind of nerve to choose destruction as your object of interest, rather than a predator to outrun. That nerve is the governing principle behind the new project from Ebril, an emerging Iraqi-Canadian alternative artist whose maximalist, shape-shifting theatricality broke through with the viral TikTok hit “Stranger In You.” Based in Toronto, she builds a soundscape designed to conjure the immaterial weight of a feeling with no clean edges. She has crafted a world where grief, waged from climate collapse, patriarchy and displacement, rejects a one-dimensional form of sorrow. Instead, her strategic form of joy, by design, comes to life as a layered set of characters. Girl Destroyed, the character built for this project, is the artist herself with a few additional shades: enraged, wondrous, mischievous, forlorn. It’s a fitting palette for a project built on the friction between organic and industrial material, one where city sounds are folded into insect stridulation, and cars reimagined as oversized bugs. As a creative practice, she challenges the instinct to look away from something fraught, and yearns to deliver a story in a different register; an invitation into it rather than something to flinch from. Inspired by a tangible, realistic way to confront atrocity head on, her lyrical style comes to life as intricate, earnest, euphoric and over the top, to slide in a narrative for the many versions of self that spectres of power attempt to flatten.
The result is an artist capable of translating and transforming a wide swath of interests – an unyielding fascination with insects, experimental sound design, feminist thought, urban ecology, the catharsis of a distorted guitar – into something startlingly singular. Rather than limiting the expanse of her imagination, she lets them remain delightfully unresolved. Her practice is one of continually expanding her own craft by learning and listening, a hands-on act of staying “in conversation” with a wide range of genealogies and legacies of music, and knowing her heritage within them. There is a word in Arabic, kahar, that carries something close to grief or misery, the specific ache of watching a place you love come apart from a distance. In that deliberate refusal is a clearly defined conviction: a girl who has embraced the tools of her own destruction, and does so with the knowledge that she can reassemble herself louder every time.
Photo Credit: Stella Gigliotti
