Thoom revisits home and uncertainty on “I’m Going Back To Lebanon”

Arnaud Marty — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:27:10 +0000

Thoom is the project of Beirut born, Los Angeles based artist and producer Zeynab Marwan. Her music moves between industrial electronics, alt pop, Arabic songwriting and punk, drawing from the different scenes and places she has lived in over the years, from Beirut and Chicago to Berlin and Los Angeles. She introduced the project with her 2023 debut EP Fantasy for Danger, before recently returning with her new mixtape Everyday, Everything Is At Stake.

Executive produced by 100 gecs’ Dylan Brady and made between Los Angeles and Lebanon, the nine track project brings together the different sides of Thoom’s music without trying to separate them. “I would be lying to my listeners if I tried to separate what seems the most natural to me,” she says. “The contradiction is the point.” She describes the mixtape as “part diary, part mythology” and as “messy, pop, Arabic, experimental, and unapologetic.”

The project closes with “I’m Going Back To Lebanon”, one of its strongest tracks and a song that made it into our Best Songs of 2026 playlist. Produced by Dylan Brady, Frost Children, Spencer Light and Count Baldor, it looks at the idea of going home when home itself can feel uncertain. “Did the summer end? / Is it war again? / Am I going back to Lebanon?” she asks in the chorus, mixing questions about a relationship with her own experience of living between Lebanon and the US. This is clearly a bop, and good news, it now comes with a video directed by Neve Abcari.

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Thoom revisits home and uncertainty on “I’m Going Back To Lebanon”