Sofia and the Antoinettes will release sophomore EP Leaving The House Is A Performance on 15th May 2026 via Warner Records, opening a new chapter with the equally arresting single ‘I Don’t Know What I’m Doing on Earth, I Don’t Know What on Earth I’m Doing’. Fresh from SXSW Austin and support slots for Lola Young at the London Palladium and Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theatre, Sofia arrives at this announcement with clear momentum behind her.
The new single feels like an ideal entry point into her world. Full of poetic introspection and emotional unease, it sees Sofia collecting names from the past while questioning her place in the present, a concept that fits neatly with her self-described aesthetic of “existentialism in high heels”. At just 23, she continues to lean into complex ideas without sanding down their messiness, writing songs that hold melancholy, glamour and confusion in the same frame.
A bigger stage for Sofia’s inner world
Leaving The House Is A Performance follows 2025 debut EP WOMEN WHO LOVE TOO MUCH, a release that earned support from BBC Radio 1 and Wonderland while establishing Sofia as a distinctive new voice with a gift for vivid lyricism and emotionally charged performance. Earlier this year, lead track ‘Hi My Love’ was named BBC Introducing’s Tune of the Week, adding another layer of anticipation around the new project before this latest single arrived.
The EP’s six-track sequence suggests a project built with shape and intention, moving from ‘Buried In This Room’ and ‘Naked Chess’ through to ‘Hi My Love’, ‘I Don’t Know What I’m Doing on Earth, I Don’t Know What on Earth I’m Doing’, ‘Vespa’ and ‘Jewellery Box’. Even on titles alone, there is a strong sense of theatre and image-making, something that has run through Sofia’s work from the start. Her writing has consistently centred women drawn to painful or unbalanced relationships, women who feel everything deeply and who recognise themselves in songs that refuse to separate softness from strength.
That tension between intimacy and performance also carries into the live story around the release. Following showcases at SXSW and The Lower Third’s Ones To Watch series, Sofia and the Antoinettes will head out on a debut UK headline tour next month, playing Manchester’s Deaf Institute on 19th May before a London headline at Hoxton Hall on 20th May. It feels like a natural step for an artist whose world has never existed only on record, but in the atmosphere, imagery and emotional mythology built around every song.
There is also a clear sense of continuity between the debut era and what comes next. The Bar Doña residency that accompanied WOMEN WHO LOVE TOO MUCH turned female emotion and self-destruction into recurring performance motifs, and this new EP title pushes that instinct further. Leaving The House Is A Performance suggests a record concerned not just with romance or heartbreak, but with presentation itself: the ways femininity, longing and survival are staged, concealed and carried into public view.
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