They were obsessed with everything from Damien Rice, Laura Marling, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, to Pink Floyd.Īt what point did you first start to pursue music as less of a bystander and more so as an active participant? My parents were always obsessed with music and had a massive stack of CDs in their room, and I'd look through them and the little booklets in the in the back. Just being exposed to a lot of music growing up. We were taking pictures of the Hollywood sign. People were pissed off with us, like the locals. Holly Humberstone: I feel like I’m just ticking off all the tourists landmarks to go to in LA. Ones to Watch: How's LA been treating you?
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We talked about working with Matty Healy, how isolation informed The Walls Are Way Too Thin, and the chances she'll pass her driver's license anytime soon. It's sick that I can connect in that way with a random person somewhere else in the world that’s living a completely different life."Īhead of the release of The Walls Are Way Too Thin, due out November 12 via Darkroom / Interscope / Polydor Records, I had the chance to sit down with a Humberstone who was still reeling from finally being able to play her first-ever run of sold-out US shows. Yet, exposing her heart and soul has allowed her to form a one-of-a-kind relationship with listeners the world over, a fact she's quick to admit, "I feel like when you connect through a song, you connect on such a deep level.
"I find it quite emotionally taxing having to write about my own personal experiences all the time and essentially bare my soul and pour my heart out every time that I want to write a song," she confesses to me in a backyard in Los Angeles while a number of small dogs fight for our attention. However, transposing the dizzying blur of what occurred inside her head into sonic form came as a double-edged sword. An unrelenting honesty, an unflinching portrayal of herself and those she holds dear.įor as long as she can remember, songwriting served as the medium for Humberstone to make sense of the world around her. It's a testament to the one constant that pervades all her work, from her debut EP to her sophomore effort, The Walls Are Way Too Thin. Emerging from rural Lincolnshire in the UK, her equally tender and cutthroat lyrics laid over a foreboding amalgamation of acoustic and electronic sonics speak as much to the likes of Damien Rice and Bon Iver as they do Phoebe Bridgers and Frank Ocean. Holly Humberstone has been championed as a future voice of a generation, and one listen to her budding discography makes it easy to see why.