Music Review: Holly Humberstone gets candid on atmospheric debut album, 'Paint My Bedroom Black'

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} A third of the way through her debut album, “Paint My Bedroom Black,” Gen Z pop singer Holly Humberstone initiates a sort of slow dance, but one set in an anxious daydream. In this bathing suit, I would die for you.” The song’s steady rhythm and candid lyrics are soothing but also worried — a tone that captures the rest of Humberstone’s debut, due out Friday. As she sings on album’s title track, “Here’s to new horizons.” Humberstone, 23, first established a fanbase in 2020 with the release of her EP “Falling Asleep at the Wheel.” In 2022, she was awarded the BRIT’s Rising Star award, adding to a lineage that includes Adele, Sam Smith and Florence + The Machine. The end of “Ghost Me” has a pleading quality reminiscent of some of the aching tracks on Abrams’ debut album, “Good Riddance."