Holly Humberstone on her debut album: “I’m closing in on it”
nme.comBRIT Awards 2022, Holly Humberstone caught up with NME to talk about celebrating female talent, debut album progress and working with Sam Fender.
Watch our full interview with Humberstone above.The Grantham singer-songwriter was at the London ceremony to pick up this year’s Rising Star Award, after the success of 2021’s ‘The Walls Are Way Too Thin’ EP.“Pretty surreal, it’s bizarre to even be here I watched the BRITs as a kid with my sisters,” she said of attending the ceremony. “It’s mad, I’m pinching myself I can’t believe I’m really here I feel so lucky.”Humberstone shared her excitement over being nominated alongside Bree Runway and Lola Young and how happy she was about the female artists being celebrated this year.“I think it’s great, I feel very lucky to be nominated beside two incredible female artists,” she told NME. “There have been so many amazing, especially female artists that have been releasing music during the past few years that I’ve looked to for inspiration and encouragement, they’re both more than deserving of an award.”Asked about when she’ll release new music, she opened up about the “scary” task of writing her debut album.“I guess I’m trying to put together a bit of an album,” she shared. “I’ve released two EPs so far and it’s really fun because I like to write songs and not have them sat on my phone for too long before releasing them because I get bored really quickly.
It’s nice because it’s like a little time capsule then it goes out into the world and I don’t have to think too much about it.”She continued: “But for some reason, the idea of an album is so intense, quite scary, and quite official.
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