Leith Ross: Making Heartbreak Sound Sublime

Winnipeg’s own Leith Ross has been making heartbreak sound holy since their 2022 breakout “We’ll Never Have Sex.” The track, whispered into bedrooms across the internet, became a queer anthem by accident, holding sapphics and soft-hearts in the same chokehold: gentle, devastating, unforgettable. Signed that same year, they turned viral intimacy into a career, stacking millions of streams and a fanbase that hears their own reflection in every lyric. Transparent and powerful.

“You’re never going to have a real answer for what the meaning of life is,” they told me, “but it feels good to ask because it’s like participation.” That paradox—comfort and confusion braided together—is where their songs live. Every track is a question disguised as a confession, melodies that soothe while lyrics unspool deeper doubts.

Dinner Table Philosophy, Bedroom Pop Confessions

Leith grew up in a house where questions were oxygen. Their dad, a philosophy and ethics teacher, trained them early to treat curiosity like muscle memory. “From a very young age, around the dinner table there were questions of the meaning of life,” Leith said. That habit of interrogating the unanswerable leaks into their songwriting: soft guitars and airy vocals giving way to lyrics that feel like late-night conversations you’re not ready to end. Don't we miss them all?

“Sometimes I have more questions when I finish than when I started,” Leith kindly admitted, “but I enjoy that. It’s exciting to me and feels like such a human endeavor.” Which is why their music doesn’t close doors, it leaves them cracked open gently,  so if we're lucky enough to feel it, we can step inside and stay haunted too. In the best way.