I Ya Toyah releases industrial-rock single and video ‘Apology’ on Femme Fatale Records
Chicago industrial artist I Ya Toyah released the single and video “Apology” on June 26, 2026 via Femme Fatale Records, produced by Johnny K.
I Ya Toyah, the Chicago industrial artist, released the single “Apology” on June 26, 2026 through her own Femme Fatale Records. The I Ya Toyah “Apology” single arrives with an official video and follows “FEELINGS”, issued in May 2026.
On “Apology”, I Ya Toyah sets heavy guitar riffs and pulsing industrial rhythms under up-front vocals, with piano passages cutting through, working across industrial, rock, electronic and alternative elements. She wrote and composed the track, Johnny K mixed and produced it, and Howie Weinberg mastered it.
I Ya Toyah’s ‘Apology’ single and video
The track turns on a repeated line, “Everyone owes me an apology”, and frames what its press release calls “a deeply uncomfortable question: when does justified pain become entitlement?” The lyric moves between accusation and confession and leaves the narrator’s motive, self-worth or superiority, unresolved.
The video for “Apology” stages the song in an industrial realm built around a steel throne, with I Ya Toyah as a central figure and followers in ritual scenes. The release describes it as drawing on “industrial, gothic, and fetish-inspired visual traditions” and using theatrical symbolism rather than literal storytelling.
“Apology” is available as a digital single on Bandcamp and through streaming services. I Ya Toyah previewed the song on her recent European dates before its release.
About I Ya Toyah
I Ya Toyah is the project of Ania Tarnowska, a musician, composer and producer based in Chicago, USA, born in ĆĂłdĆș, Poland, in 1980. Spoken in Polish, “I Ya Toyah” means “it’s just me”. She trained in classical guitar, piano and voice as a child, moved to the United States as a young adult, and graduated from SAE Institute in 2016 in music business and audio engineering. She runs her own label, Femme Fatale Records.
She began the solo project in 2017 and released her debut album “Code Blue” independently on October 26, 2018, the same year as the single “Farewell – Mirrors Don’t Lie“, whose video premiered on Side-Line. In 2019 she joined the post-industrial group The Joy Thieves and toured with Pigface. A remix double album, “Code Blue Reloaded”, and the bonus set “Code Blue Revelations” followed in 2020, with the five-part EP “Out of Order” in 2021 and the acoustic EP “Ghosts” in 2022.
In 2023 she released “Panic Room”, produced with Walter Flakus of Stabbing Westward, and opened US dates for that band. The work with Flakus continued on the “I am the Fire” EP and the album “DRAMA“, both released in 2024, the year she also toured the United States with Orgy and Cold and made her first European tour supporting Front Line Assembly. Side-Line covered her 2024 video for “Fraud“. After the May 2026 release “FEELINGS”, “Apology” continues her run of 2026 singles.
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