Unafraid to tap into her darkest and most complex emotions, Holly Humberstone’s latest collaborative track with Matty Healy is a stunning depiction of the innate desire for human connection.

Named the BBC Sound of 2021 and nominated for the Ivor Novello Rising Star Award, Holly Humberstone is a 21-year-old singer-songwriter with a unique point of view. Hailing from a women-oriented home in Grantham, Holly is deeply passionate about issues affecting women, as well as issues surrounding mental health and the environmental impacts of fast fashion. As well as creating her own musical universe, Holly has also established the Fifth Sister Swap initiative, which enables her and her fanbase to swap clothes in order to replace reliance on fast fashion.

Holly’s latest release entitled Please Don’t Leave Just Yet embodies the universal emotions of isolation, loss and sadness which humankind has been subjected to during this past year. Co-written and co-produced by The 1975’s Matty Healy, Please Don’t Leave Just Yet is a poignant track which was born from Holly’s overwhelming longing for relation amidst the pandemic.

Holly shares:

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.

Due for release on November 5th, via Polydor/Darkroom/Interscope, Holly Humberstone’s sophomore EP The Walls Are Way Too Thin is a highly-anticipated project featuring six songs. In the meantime though, listeners can delve into the emotional complexities of Please Don’t Leave Just Yet.