Holly Humberstone on “Superbloodmoon” and Leading a Double Life

Paint My Bedroom Black exists in the space between deadly quiet and extreme noises. “I was loving the shows but then I’d get back to my hotel room on my own and it was completely silent and I’d feel really depressed,” Holly Humberstone told I-D. The 23-year-old singer-songwriter has been on tour most of the year. “I’d just go on my phone and doomscroll and see all of my friends having fun together. So one side of my life was popping off and going really well, but the other side I was neglecting all of my relationships and just felt really out of touch with everybody. I felt like I was living some sort of a weird, fake existence for a lot of last year.”

She was feeling everything, yet having no outlet to express, so when she finally got to a studio, everything just exploded from the core of her being. “By the time I get to the studio, I’m just so desperate to get everything out,” she said. And Paint My Bedroom Black brought her back to centre.

The 13-track Paint My Bedroom Black is due to come out on Oct. 13. It’s named after the yet-to-release opening track. “For me, the tittle summed up quite a lot of the album.” Like a quiet explosion, which “Antichrist” and “Room Service” have offered fans a glimpse. Her hyper-sensitive vocal in closed up, microscopically sprawling and crawling, like smokes, like snakes.

“Superbloodmoon” (out on July 28), with d4vd, is a song that Holly has been burning to write. “There’s a line that goes, ‘I saw a super blood moon in the sky, can you see it from where you are?’ That I had that in my notes for ages,” she revealed. The song is about two lovers meeting as their paths intertwine only to be parting again. “It felt like we were ships passing in the night.” Being disconnected but spiritually connected.