Holly Humberstone

With her eagerly-awaited second EP arriving later this year, British singer-songwriter Holly Humberstone has released the newest taste of what to expect, sharing her new track “The Walls Are Way Too Thin.” The song comes not long after the previously released song “Haunted House,” and both are set to appear on her forthcoming EP, Emotional Grim Reaper, which is set for release November 6^th via Interscope Records. For the claustrophobic music video for “The Walls Are Way Too Thin,” Humberstone crawls through an endless air vent on her elbows and knees. The fire blast in the vent was completely real and Holly was terrified. She teamed up with directors Josh Sanger and Raja Virdi for the video, which was designed to reflect her anxieties of living in a dingy flat in a city she didn't know.

When asked about writing the single, Humberstone explains, “I wrote ‘The Walls Are Way Too Thin’ about a time in my life when I felt like I’d lost control of where I was heading and struggling to find my place in the world. I’d just moved to a small London flat and felt claustrophobic and alone. To avoid confronting how I was feeling I’d sneak out the flat and go on train journeys to see my mates, get drunk, then come back hungover through the night and early hours. I wrote most of the Walls and the songs that come next on those trains. It was my place of therapy, in the middle of nowhere, constantly moving with no destination.”

Holly Humberstone is from Grantham, England and she first rose to popularity through her association with fellow musician Lewis Capaldi, performing during intermissions on his concert tours. In 2020, she put her debut EP, Falling Asleep At The Wheel.

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