Breakout artist rising star Holly Humberstone releases sophomore six tracks EP ‘The Walls Are Way Too Thin‘
The six-track project poignantly explores a moment in time that’s universally relatable to anyone navigating the leap to adulthood, from the feeling of being lost to questioning your identity and belonging. Led by her milestone single “Scarlett,” the EP features her collaboration with The 1975’s Matty Healy “Please Don’t Leave Just Yet,” the cinematic title-track “The Walls Are Way Too Thin” and slowburn “Haunted House,” as well as two never-before-heard songs “Thursday” and “Friendly Fire.” The Walls Are Way Too Thin cements Humberstone as a voice for her generation, and demonstrates a songwriting prowess that defies her 21-years of age and only one year in the limelight. Always striving to write lyrics that are deeply personal to herself, the honest storytelling at the heart of Holly’s craft has resonated with people everywhere and pinpointed a shared commonality in the peaks and valleys of our life experiences.
She says: “This EP represents a feeling of being lost. It’s the kind of lost that makes you question who you are and where you belong. So lost that someone might need to find you again because you can’t find yourself. That’s how it felt to move to Liverpool, then London, and be in transit between cities and never settling”.
The new official video was “Friendly Fire” was filmed on a rooftop adorned in Halloween decorations and backdropped by the distant glow of New York City at night, the visual captures a sense of melancholy and loneliness that pulses throughout the song.
And Holly adds: “I wrote this song on a very confusing holiday in autumn of last year. Prior to leaving I was going through a lot of big changes in my life (most of which unplanned and unwanted) and it all came to a head with a family loss. The holiday was meant to be some time to heal but it became an agonising period of overthinking about the relationship I was in. Everything I was going through had put a lot of strain on my relationship. I didn’t feel like myself for a long time and never really expressed this to him, but deep down it was eating me up. I was very stressed because I knew the relationship was good and just couldn’t understand what was wrong with me or why I was having these weird confusing feelings. I felt I needed to get it off my chest and this song was my way of saying “if I do hurt you in the future then I never meant to and I’m sorry.”
Following back-to-back nights at both The Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles and Bowery Ballroom in New York City – her first-EVER headlining shows in the US – Holly returned to London earlier this week for a momentous performance at the iconic Shepherd’s Bush Empire and will return to the US for her debut full-length tour supporting girl in red in spring 2022.
Holly’s deep care for sustainable fashion encouraged her to launch her Fifth Sister Swap initiative as a way for her fans to swap clothes without relying on fast fashion. It’s a concept that stemmed from her three sisters constantly borrowing from and swapping their own wardrobes, and growing up in a house of women has made Holly passionate about issues affecting women. At Holly’s headline show at Omeara in London this summer, she hosted the first-ever IRL Swap Shop, then brought it to Los Angeles and finally NYC with Rogue Garms. Launching today, Holly has partnered with TRAID, the UK charity working to tackle and solve the problems caused by making, consuming and wasting clothes, on a limited edition merch drop to encourage recycling clothes.
With performances under her belt on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Later…with Jools Holland, Holly most recently delivered a stunning rendition of “Scarlett” on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Her meteoric ascent has caught the attention of Triple J, The NY Times, The Sunday Times, Variety, NME, ELLE, Billboard Nylon, AV Club, The Guardian, i-D and more, and although her story might have only just begun, Holly Humberstone is destined to be a force for years to come.
