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Holly Humberstone announces debut album Paint My Bedroom Black
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 30 June 2023
Holly Humberstone has announced that she will release her debut album ‘Paint My Bedroom Black’ later this year. To celebrate this long-awaited news, she’s put out not one, but more than one new single. A double A-side, if you will. And you will. The two songs are ‘Antichrist’ and ‘Room Service’.
“’Antichrist’ is about a break up I went through a couple of years ago”, she says. “I genuinely cared about this person and wanted so badly to make it work, but I knew something wasn’t right and my heart wasn’t in it. I knew that I was inevitably going to have to hurt the person who I wanted so much to love”.
“At the time I wrote the song, I remember feeling like I was constantly letting those around me down”, she goes on. “Like I was falling short of being there for anyone I cared about. I basically felt like the worst person in the world; like the Antichrist. I really felt that I was toxic to be around, and the guilt and self-loathing that came with that manifested itself in this song”.
Moving on to the other new song, she continues: “I wrote ‘Room Service’ a little while ago when I’d just started touring full time. I was finding myself constantly stressed out and although I was having fun, I was really missing home and my friends. I felt like I was watching them live out their lives from a phone screen, like I was being left behind”.
“There was this swelling feeling that I was growing apart from that world that I was missing so badly, and I just didn’t want to be forgotten”, she adds. “AlI I wanted to do was to get a hotel room with my best friend, lock the world out and do stupid stuff like order room service”.
“To me, this song is a simple love song to the people I care about the most, and the seemingly basic experiences you share together that can so often be taken for granted”, she concludes. ”The busier I get, the more I treasure the precious time I get with my friends and family; the more I value them in my life”.
The album is set for release on 13 Oct. Check out the new singles here:
