Holly Humberstone Shares Emotive Title Song From ‘Paint My Bedroom Black’ Album
The rising U.K. star’s debut album will be out tomorrow, October 13, through Darkroom/Geffen/Polydor Records.
Holly Humberstone has shared the title track off her highly anticipated debut album, Paint My Bedroom Black. The song arrives just ahead of the album’s release on Friday, October 13 release via Darkroom/ Geffen/Polydor Records.
“Paint My Bedroom Black” serves as the perfect opener for Humberstone’s album, distilling the raw emotion and energy of a coming of age story. Humberstone’s confidence reverberates throughout the track as she sings, “Finally I’m living, not surviving / And it’s funny you said I’d never have the guts / Well suck it up / I’m gonna bottle up this feeling.” You can check the song out below.
The title-track is the final offering ahead of Humberstone’s forthcoming album release, arriving in the slipstream of the singles “Kissing In Swimming Pools,” “Into Your Room,” “Superbloodmoon” (featuring d4vd) “Antichrist,” and “Room Service.”
Humberstone first enjoyed success with her debut EP, ‘Falling Asleep At The Wheel.’ A select run of global dates followed, featuring sold-out shows at Los Angeles’ Roxy Theatre and multiple nights at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, which led to Humberstone being invited on tour with Olivia Rodrigo and Girl in Red in 2022. It was during these trips through soulless hotel rooms where the 23-year-old songwriter began to craft Paint My Bedroom Black, which evokes themes of lost loves, family units and the fear of growing up.
The young artist’s debut album represents her coming of age, showcasing her growth from an underground singer to one of the most exciting alternative pop stars of her generation. The dark and otherworldly space Humberstone has built has been lucid and visceral, capturing moments that are both uncomfortably intimate and brutally revealing. Having been nominated for two Ivor Novello’s, winning the BRIT Rising Star in 2022 and coming runner up in BBC Sound Of 2021, Humberstone’s storytelling is at the heart of her craft.
Rolling Stone recently wrote “On her debut album, Paint My Bedroom Black, Humberstone builds on the diaristic storytelling from her first couple of EPs and expands her emotional range. As heart-wrenching as her music can be when she sings about expired love, like on 2020’s ‘Falling Asleep at the Wheel,’ this album shows some of her best straight-up love songs.”
The new music follows a monumental year for Holly Humberstone who performed her single “Can You Afford To Lose Me?” on Late Night With Stephen Colbert, played her Matty Healy co-written song “Sleep Tight” for Vevo Live and made major festival debuts at Coachella, Glastonbury and Reading & Leeds. In addition, Humberstone played her biggest show to date at O2 Academy Brixton in London where she sang fan favorites “Scarlett” and “Overkill” to nearly 5,000 fans.
