Holly Humberstone has released her new single, “Superbloodmoon” featuring d4vd today. Marking the third song taken from her highly anticipated debut album Paint My Bedroom Black arriving October 13, 2023 via Darkroom / Geffen / Polydor Records, the track is an ode to the phenomenon when Earth’s moon turns crimson in the night sky during a total lunar eclipse – an event as beguiling as it is rare. Holly was pulled toward the idea of a super blood moon as if caught in its orbit.
Having met billion-streaming American singer and songwriter d4vd in London at longtime collaborator Rob Milton’s studio, the duo wrote the song in a few hours, imagining two people staring at the extraordinary lunar eclipse from opposite sides of the world. Her sense of self and identity has perpetually been inspired by the environments around, from her parent’s decaying house in the English countryside on her debut EP to flatshares in London with The Walls Are Way Too Thin. “Superbloodmoon,” as well as the entirety of Paint My Bedroom Black, reflects the landscape surrounding Holly, relentlessly traveling the globe last year on tour and trying to find an anchor in places distant from home.
“I had been a huge fan of d4vd’s work for about a year and was lucky enough to catch him whilst he was in London,” says Holly about the track. “We went into the studio and wrote Superbloodmoon. It came pretty naturally as we had both been touring for what seemed like forever, and wanted to write about the feelings that come with leaving your home and the people you love behind. I had the title for the song on my notes, and it just stemmed from there. We wrote about witnessing the same thing from opposite sides of the world and feeling lonely but connected through that experience at the same time. I love the song and I’m so grateful to d4vd for bringing it to life with me.”
Adds d4vd about the song, “Holly and I met in London and wrote this song in just a few hours. It was really effortless and special. We both loved the idea of a Superbloodmoon and two people witnessing the same thing no matter where they are in the world. We also got to perform it together at my show in London a couple months ago, which was the first time I’ve ever gotten to collab with someone onstage like that and it was really fun. I’m very grateful to Holly for having me on this song.”
Holly Humberstone’s debut album Paint My Bedroom Black represents her coming of age, growing from an unknown singer at her parent’s piano to one of the most exciting alternative pop stars of her generation. The dark and otherworldly space Holly has built and invited fans into has been lucid and visceral, both sonically and visually. With the camera always on her shoulder, the lens constantly peers into her chaotic thoughts and deep feelings. Already nominated for two Ivor Novello’s, winning the BRIT Rising Star in 2022 and coming runner up in BBC Sound Of 2021, Humberstone’s bare-all storytelling is the heart of her craft. The rising star dropped “Antichrist” and “Room Service” last month, the double A-Side singles that juxtapose her introspection and extraversion – the light and dark. The introduction of these two starkly different tracks act as a window into her duality.
With a prowess for capturing and characterizing moments that are both uncomfortably intimate and brutally revealing in her songwriting and creative – most of Holly’s 2022 was spent in hotel rooms, stuck between places, watching life from afar rather than being totally present in it. Lacking real connections and missing loved ones, the stirring official video for “Antichrist”, directed by Jean-Charles Chavarin, tells the story of the self-flagellation that comes with hurting someone you love, as you run away from yourself, trying to escape from room to room, until your reflection turns away from you. Last week, Holly dropped a music video for “Room Service”, shot in room 627 on a webcam, the same London hotel room that Holly invited 80 fans to hear songs for the first time from her highly anticipated debut album Paint My Bedroom Black. Inspired by early zoom calls where Holly’s world felt blurry and faraway, the video captures a day in the life of Holly on tour, trying to find normality and home in the mundane, locked away from the world in a hotel room.