Holly Walker - Ballerine

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1. Holly Walker - Ballerine

 

Making a name for herself as co-writer and vocalist with Maribou State over the years, London singer-songwriter Holly Walker steps into the spotlight with new solo single ‘Ballerine’.

A pulsing and intimate offering, it’s a song about “how fickle and unrealistic our generation has become; wanting Dirty Dancing throw-me-in-the-air-and-fix-my-problems romance but not wanting to put in more effort than a swipe right.” Holly explains. “It’s the tension between the Disney love we want and the rubbish Tinder experience we’re getting.” Co-produced with North Downs, ‘Ballerine’ unearths the darker side of Holly’s sound.

In conjunction with her output with Maribou State, Holly has been quietly amassing solo material: a groove-led collection of songs detailing ‘casual romance for the bored and selfish’, ‘internet rage’, or as on her NMF playlisted first track Straight Line, ‘that wet-yourself sensation that time’s running out and you haven’t won the game yet’.