‘Weeping Angel’ is here, 13 tracks from iyla with ‘Pledge’ and a cinematic ‘Corset’ moment

‘Weeping Angel’ by iyla arrives, 13 tracks, ‘Pledge’ leads, pink tinted tributes and bold visuals shape a powerful debut.

For a share ready snapshot, iyla’s debut album ‘Weeping Angel’ is out everywhere, gathering 13 tracks that move from grief to renewal. The set includes fan favorites ‘Wild’, ‘Strut’, ‘Overboard’, and ‘Corset’, and introduces ‘Pledge’ as the bold new focus.

“‘Pledge’ is a sexy and confident demand for a man to step his game up,” says iyla of the new track. “Drop to your knees or fly away forever.”

The project reflects a period following her mother’s passing, with production and storytelling that stretch from spiritual to sensual to cinematic. In her own words, the record became a vessel for everything that could not be spoken at the time, a way to create through pain and emerge with something fearless and complete.

“Weeping Angel is my debut album, named after the monster that is love,” iyla reveals. “We created this album in the most challenging and transformative couple years of my life. It’s a reflection of everything I felt but couldn’t say out loud… it’s freedom, sensuality, heartache, pain, moments of clarity, grief and the spectrum that is to love and be loved in return. These songs came from laughs and from screams. This album was drowned in tears and brought back to the surface again to see the sun. Creating this project was a way of surviving, of making art from the wreckage, and discovering new parts of myself through it all. Weeping Angel is spiritual, provocative, and a ride you will never want to get off of.”

Highlights extend across the tracklist. ‘Ave Maria’ pairs devotion with desire, anchored by her remark, “If you’re spiritual, there’s often an expectation you can’t embrace your own sexuality,” she notes. ‘Cotton Candy Clouds’ is a dreamy tribute with a pink tint, “Her favorite color was pink, and my favorite color was never pink. Since her death, my favorite color is now pink,” iyla shares. ‘Twin Flame’ studies duality, ‘Join Hands’ lifts a church like mood, and ‘Skirt Hurt (Redemption)’ blends tenderness with command, “It’s the first track I wrote after my mom’s passing,” she says. “I always need to have this stance of bad-bitch energy—but conveyed in a poetic and timeless way.”

The visual language is already in motion. ‘Corset’, produced by longtime collaborator Kadis, arrived as a cinematic slow burn whose video, directed by Justin Moser with iyla as creative director, animates the album’s artwork in haunting, surreal form.