This summer, Holly Humberstone sold out her 17-date North American tour, including two headlines at Brooklyn Steel, before travelling back to the UK to support Kings Of Leon and perform at Truck festival and Tramlines. Now she is set to play to the biggest audience of her career, at Wembley Stadium opening for Taylor Swift. Both artists have captured the hearts and minds of fans globally through their emotive songwriting and profound storytelling.
Last year, Humberstone released her critically acclaimed top 5 debut album Paint My Bedroom Black, which represents her coming of age story; growing from an unknown singer at her parent’s piano to one of the most exciting alternative pop stars of her generation. With a talent for capturing and characterising moments that are both uncomfortably intimate and brutally revealing in her songwriting and creative – the past few years were spent in hotel rooms, stuck between places, watching life from afar rather than being totally present in it. Lacking real connections and missing loved ones, Holly’s debut album portrayed a songwriter at a moment of huge change. Paint My Bedroom Black features triumphant singles “Into You Room”, “Kissing In Swimming Pools”, described by The Sunday Times as portraying “empathy, insight and unblinking candour”, to the sublime “Superbloodmoon” featuring d4vd. As well as “Antichrist” and “Room Service”, the double A-Side singles that reflect Holly’s introspection and extraversion, two opposing artistic multitudes that inform Holly’s lyricism and sound.
Earlier this year, the BRIT-winning and Ivor Novello nominated artist headlined a sold-out Eventim Apollo in London and released the work in progress EP, a collection of four tracks from uncut demos that represent older versions of herself “mixed up with present versions of me”. Holly continuously bares her soul with her open and instinctive songwriting and storytelling. The Work In Progress EP is a stream of consciousness for fans, with lead single “Down Swinging” a constant reminder to push through the bad days. Written with long-time collaborator Rob Milton and songwriter Ben Leftwich, Work In Progress includes a new collaboration with Flyte’s Will Taylor and producer Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Dijon, Bon Iver).
