Sabreen Announces Sophmore EP ‘Forget Me When I’m Gone’ + New Single
Auckland singer-songwriter Sabreen announces her forthcoming EP Forget Me When I’m Gone, arriving Friday 25 September alongside new single Land Mines – a deeply introspective sister song to her earlier release Therapy.
Emotionally raw and quietly devastating, Land Mines explores the heavier consequences of the emotional turbulence that can define your twenties, when relationships, loneliness and self-discovery collide.
On the single, Sabreen says: “Land Mines is a deeply personal song to me, peeling back the mask of Therapy to reckon with the true cost of living with mental health struggles. It is intimately inspired by my own experiences of PTSD and depression, which can feel like walking through a field of land mines. It’s a song for the moments of strength no one gives you flowers for, and the battles that exhaust you to the bone that no one sees.”
Where Therapy found humour in the chaos of being a woman in her twenties, Land Mines takes a sadder, more vulnerable angle on the same emotional terrain. Sabreen turns inward, capturing the experience of living in a state of hyper-awareness – walking on eggshells, carrying the emotional weight of others and retreating into solitude as a way of finding peace.
At its heart, Land Mines is a song about survival and self-awareness, and the exhausting process of learning to exist without constantly bracing for impact. It arrives as a key preview of Forget Me When I’m Gone, Sabreen’s sophomore EP exploring the contradictions, growing pains and emotional messiness of navigating your twenties.
Across the project, Sabreen moves between humour and heartbreak, vulnerability and resilience, exploring relationships, identity, loneliness and the complicated process of understanding yourself in real time.
At just 23 years old, Sabreen has quickly emerged as a distinctive voice in contemporary music. A singer, songwriter and author, she draws inspiration from artists including Hozier, Paris Paloma and The Beths, weaving earnest and emotionally rich storytelling through her work.
Proudly Bangladeshi and Muslim, Sabreen is also a passionate advocate for her community, with themes of identity and cultural expression often present in her music. Her previous release, The End (Arabic Version) featuring Rana Hamida, brought together collaborators across Arabic and South Asian musical traditions, blending activism and artistry.
With Land Mines, Sabreen offers a more vulnerable counterpoint to Therapy, giving listeners their first deeper look into Forget Me When I’m Gone, a project about growing up, looking inward and learning to live with the parts of yourself you cannot simply outrun.
Land Mines is out now on all streaming platforms.
Sabreen’s EP Forget Me When I’m Gone is out Friday 25 September.
