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album, “Good Riddance.” It relies on an upbeat repetition to create an urgency that feels poignant. It also expertly captures the trials of modern communication, as Humberstone references doomscrolling through a camera roll alongside cycling through her own memories.

As the track fades to ambient sounds, a voice memo from a friend of Humberstone’s begins: “There’s this SpongeBob line which I always think of, and it’s this guy who’s really sad, and he goes: ‘I was born with paper skin and bones made out of glass, every day I wake up and I shatter my ankles,’ or something like that. Like he’s really sad, I’ll find it now. But that’s how I feel at the moment.”

Set against Humberstone’s lyrics, there’s a poetic, heartbreaking quality to that statement. In actuality, that (often referenced on social media) quote is from a 2002 “SpongeBob” episode called “Chocolate with Nuts,” and that guy (fish?) is a con artist attempting to swindle SpongeBob and his starfish best friend, Patrick.

There may be something to be said, then, about the gullibility required of contemporary relationships, especially very-online ones. But the recording’s inclusion is fitting, a knowing nod to Humberstone’s youth. As she sings earlier in the track, “And where the hell did our childhood go? It freaks me out, how fast we grow.”

The 13 tracks on “Paint My Bedroom Black” live within the same atmosphere, one that is woven out of layered and pulsing productions of synthetic sounds, rich drum beats and Humberstone’s strong vocals. But they are also different enough to paint a complex portrait of a young woman going through something, one who will paint her bedroom black not to hide from the outside world – but to drown out distraction.