Holly Henderson has released her new single, “This Time Next Year” on Bandcamp.
“This Time Next Year” is an acoustic, baroque-pop work of art. The song feels like it could have been on a Kate Bush Holiday album in 1983. Unexpected twists and turns of harmonic movement and orchestration swirl through the song like wispy snowflakes.” – Trend & Chaos
You can read the full review here.
From Holly:
“I wanted to write a Christmas song for some time, this just wasn’t the year for it. I ended up noodling on my guitar, feeling particularly down about the coming festive season, which I think has some sadness about it for a lot of people anyway. It felt apropos of the current locked down, isolating time, to write a simple folk song on my guitar. I didn’t even want to sing, just something simple and nostalgic. As I wrote I felt better. I added horns and bells, it grew into something more hopeful, without it being cringey and I got some of my Christmas spirit back.
I sang over it a few times, and improvised the lyrics over 10 or so takes until I tightened up some loose words. I just sang about my loneliness, my hope for Christmas being a rare, happy moment to cling onto, however it comes – and my hopes for next year being better and reuniting with the people I’ve been missing so badly. It’s a tune for that. I hope it rings an internal jingle bell for whoever hears it. “ – Holly