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Nov 14, 2025 By Caleb Campbell

New Delhi indie singer/songwriter, graphic artist, and producer Sijya released her sophomore EP, Leather & Brass earlier this fall, her first release since her 2022 debut EP, Young Hate. Working alongside mentors Matthew Herbert and Hugh Jones (aka Crewdson), Sijya’s latest project finds her cobbling together a work of experimentation and contrasts, rigorously searching for unique textures and a careful balance of digital and analogue sounds. Sijya and recording engineer Jay Panelia ran digital synths through analog guitar pedals, adding compression, delays, reverb, and more until the distortions felt vital, rough, and roiling.

As Sijya explains; “Finishing this was a long process. Painful. Not just in the way that it is painful to make anything, because it is. Ideas are exciting, but you get over them very fast. Then you trudge along until there’s another spark. Before this EP, I feel like I was messing about. I didn’t think a career in music was possible. I had been circling around music for a long time and making album art as a graphic designer, but Young Hate was my first attempt of ‘doing’ any music at all. Now, with this second EP, I feel like I have become a musician. I am now doing this with intention. This EP feels like the beginning of me trying to find a sound.”

Today, Sijya is following the record’s release with a new live video for one of the EP’s highlights, “Do I Know,” premiering with Under the Radar.

The video for “Do I Know” unfolds as a single unbroken shot, recorded at an old abandoned factory outside of Delhi. Sijya dances between vocals and synths as the lights flash, bathing her in a warm yellow glow in one moment and cool moody blues the next. The track’s rattling digital percussion and distorted bass gives it a current of aggression and menace, but Sijya also tempers the track’s darker side with spacey synth tones and ethereal, free-floating vocal melodies. The combination feels gritty and industrial, fitting with the video’s moody locale and deep shadows. However, there is an equal sense of lithe fluidity at play, drawn from trip hop and art pop. Sijya is comfortable in both light and shadow, able to lean into the visceral, bass-heavy components of the track and performance while lacing both with a glassy otherwordly sheen.

Sijya says of the video, “The space where we shot these is actually the factory abandoned by my dad. It’s far outside of Delhi. A museum of his ruins, almost. It’s been defunct for as long as I’ve been alive, and a lot of it is just etched in time. When talks of a live performance video came up, my mind went directly here.

Most people love this song, but many people that love my stuff, also hate it. Some think it’s an obvious reaction to me starting to play to crowds. It could be. But to me, it feels like anything I’ve ever made, something I pursued because it had a feeling I was into. This song too has a synth part that my friends called ‘a great guitar riff’. I guess from years of listening to guitar music, my mind just works like that without me even knowing.”

Check out the video below. The Leather & Brass EP is out everywhere now via One Little Independent Records.