Rising alt-pop-rock artist Sabina Beyli returns with “Bad Habits,” out October 24, 2025, digging straight into the patterns we swear we’ve left behind but somehow find ourselves repeating. At 22, Sabina has already built a reputation for blunt emotional honesty smoothened in sweeping hooks, and here she leans fully into that instinct. Co-written with longtime collaborator Kate J. Brink and produced by Mike Midura, the song was born from a restless, moody instrumental that mirrors the internal spiral it describes. You can hear echoes of Evanescence in the brooding weight of the arrangement, the directness of Maggie Lindemann in the lyrical punch, and a hint of Deftones in the atmospheric haze, but we know that the voice guiding it all is distinctly Sabina’s.
The song opens in a low, shadowy register, as atmospheric synth textures hover mistily while Sabina steps in with her deep, velvety vocal. She sounds steady on the surface, but there’s a tremor underneath — something she’s trying to control but can’t quite tame. As the track builds, the guitars thicken into a storm-front wall of sound, riffs growing tighter and more urgent. By the time the drums hit with crisp, sharp intensity, the emotional gravity has already sunk in.
Her delivery is the center of the song, along with the frustration, longing, and exhaustion bleeding through each line without ever slipping into melodrama. When the chorus opens up, it’s big in the way confessions are big and definitely not loud for loudness’ sake, but because the truth refuses to stay small. It’s cathartic, yes, but it’s also painfully familiar to anyone who’s tried to break a cycle and failed more than once.
“Bad Habits” sits in the mess of it all and that’s what makes it hit so hard.
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Review by: Naomi Joan