​ANNOUNCES HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SECOND EP THE WALLS ARE WAY TOO THIN SET FOR RELEASE ON 5 NOVEMBER 
 SHARES BRAND NEW TRACK ‘PLEASE DON’T LEAVE JUST YET’ CO-WRITTEN BY 1975’s MATTY HEALY
AND IS NOMINATED FOR IVOR NOVELLO RISING STAR AWARD WITH APPLE MUSIC 

 
Breakthrough artist of 2021 and the Ivor Novello Rising Star nominee Holly Humberstone announces her highly anticipated second EP The Walls Are Way Too Thin, set to be released on 5 November on Polydor/Darkroom/Interscope. Featuring the landmark A-List title track and the immaculately beautiful ‘Haunted House’, the six-track EP includes brand new song ‘Please Don’t Leave Just Yet’, a collaboration with Matty Healy, frontman of one of Holly’s favourite bands The 1975. When Holly Humberstone entered the studio with Matty, it was mid-pandemic and the 21-year-old felt a yearning for human connection. She pictured drifting out to sea with the city lights behind her, feeling lost and rudderless. Matty, Holly and longtime collaborator Rob Milton, put these universal feelings into the song, another example of Holly’s exquisite ability to connect with our deepest, darkest emotions. 
 
In Holly’s own words: “The song is about wanting someone to stay so badly, even if only for five more minutes, because you know how much it’ll hurt when they leave. I think the desperation in the words really sums up how I was feeling at the time and how so many people must’ve been feeling last year when we were all completely starved of human connection! I often write songs with a bit of a visual in my head, and I kept picturing solitary places, like drifting far out to sea, so far that you can’t find a way back, or old deserted cargo shipping yards with all the lights at the edge of the city.
 
Listen to ‘Please Don’t Leave Just Yet’ here
 
Holly’s second EP The Walls Are Way Too Thin follows her critically acclaimed debut Falling Asleep At The Wheel, which marked the first chapter in the story of a new global talent. Having just been announced as the Ivor Novello Rising Star Nominee, to being named the BBC Sound of 2021, Apple’s Up Next Artist, VEVO DSCVR’s Artists To Watch 2021, and internationally heralded by the likes of Jimmy Kimmel, James Corden, Triple J, The Sunday Times, NME (5*), The Guardian, i-D, ELLE, and Billboard, it is Holly’s remarkable storytelling that has captured the hearts and minds of fans globally. Holly wants her lyrics to be the ones people could tattoo on themselves and her songs embrace and translate some of life’s most intense feelings in a way that typical conversations all too often fail to capture, from mental health struggles to the dizzying feelings of displacement as you grow out of adolescence. 
 
“This EP represents a feeling of being lost. It’s the kind of lost that makes you question who you are and where you belong. So lost that someone might need to find you again because you can’t find yourself. That’s how it felt to move to Liverpool, then London, and be in transit between cities and never settling” - says Holly. 
 
Pre-Order EP here
 
The news comes after the long awaited return of live music, with Holly playing to her fans for the first time ever, stating “I’ve never seen physical proof my fans actually exist” (Metro). The 21-year old became the breakthrough artist of an unprecedented year - whilst her streaming numbers rocketed to over 150M global streams and her story grew from her crumbling house in Grantham - Holly was unable to play for her growing fanbase. Now, having set festival stages alight at Latitude, Standon Calling and Tramlines, Holly prepares for her first sold out London headlines, with four shows at Omeara next week. 
 
Creating a visionary world within her music, Holly has also set up the Fifth Sister Swap initiative, as a way for her and her fans to swap clothes without relying on fast fashion. It’s an idea that stemmed from her three sisters constantly borrowing from and swapping their own wardrobes, and growing up in a house of women has made Holly passionate about issues affecting women. The artist recently filmed a session for Splendour In The Grass Festival in the Mind Charity shop in Camden, with the focus being on the incredible work Mind do in the UK for mental health, an issue close to her heart. Wanting to bring her initiatives directly to her fans, Holly will be launching the first IRL Fifth Sister Swap at her sold-out Omeara headlines. 
 
The Walls Are Way Too Thin Tracklist 
1. Haunted House
2. The Walls Are Way Too Thin
3. Please Don’t Leave Just Yet
4. Thursday
5. Scarlett
6. Friendly Fire
 
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TOUR AND FESTIVAL DATES 
Tickets available here 
 
 
06 Aug              Wilderness                                 Chipping Norton
13 Aug  Boardmasters Festival                   Newquay
15 Aug              Omeara                         London               SOLD OUT
16 Aug              Omeara                         London               SOLD OUT
17 Aug              Omeara                         London                           SOLD OUT
18 Aug              Omeara                         London               SOLD OUT
27 Aug              Reading & Leeds
29 Aug              Reading & Leeds                                    
30 Aug              All Points East                              London
10 Sept              TRNSMT Festival              Glasgow
17 Sep              This Is Tomorrow Festival    Newcastle
 
07 Oct               The Troubadour               Los Angeles, USA
09 Oct               Austin City Limits              Austin, USA
12 Oct               Bowery Ballroom              New York
26 Oct               The Cluny                                   Newcastle Upon Tyne
27 Oct               Brudenell Social Club                    Leeds                            SOLD OUT
28 Oct               Yes (The Pink Room)                      Manchester                     SOLD OUT
30 Oct               Whelan’s                                    Dublin 
31 Oct               Oh Yeah Music Centre                   Belfast
02 Nov              King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut   Glasgow            SOLD OUT
03 Nov              O2 Institute 3                              Birmingham                     SOLD OUT
04 Nov              Clwb Ifor Bach                            Cardiff                               SOLD OUT  
08 Nov              O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire            London
10 Nov              Rescue Rooms                              Nottingham                     SOLD OUT
02 June              Primavera Sound             Barcelona
18 June Hurricane Festival             Germany
19 June  Southside Festival             Germany ​