Delilah Holliday signs to One Little Independent and unveils "Everything I Ever Wanted"

At the age of 14, Holliday founded Skinny Girl Diet, with her sister Ursula and their cousin Amelia. The trio quickly became a staple of the 2010’s UK indie-punk landscape. She then successfully transitioned to her current solo moniker with the release of her debut single "Babylon" in 2018. Shortly after, appeared on the Baxter Dury album B.E.D alongside Étienne de Crécy.

"Everything I Ever Wanted" comes off the heels of 2022's "Hold Out". Of the single, Holliday says: "It’s basically about the anxiety of the world burning, but it's still like a love song. It's about asking your love “Would you still run away with me?” It was one of those songs that just wrote itself, I was staying in the Swedish countryside, there was no one around and I enjoyed being isolated, it allowed me to conjure up the concept of what it would feel like to be at the end of the world hiding in a bunker with the person you love the most."

Invaluable Vol.1 follows on from Holliday's 2021 album, Collective Consciousness.

Invaluable Vol. 1 was co-written and co-produced with composer Raphael Ninot both remotely and in his Waterloo studio. As such, they found the location fed the process, with the grinding mechanics soundtracking Delilah’s train journeys and the bleak visual backdrop sculpting the narrative.

Of the process, Holliday says: “We wanted to create a sonic world where each song had its own characteristics. We visualised the EP being a house, and imagined how all the songs would sound and feel as rooms in this imaginary house. If you listen to the tracks closely you might be able to hear some trains in some of the vocal takes. "Everything I Ever Wanted" was created on Don Cherry’s piano in Neneh’s house in Sweden which I recorded then cut up and resampled."

The EP – the first of two – says that we are all a product of our upbringing. She concludes: “Aesthetically I really wanted to communicate all the experiences that go into making yourself. All of us on this planet have had a unique experience. And I feel like they're invaluable experiences, and they are the riches in life, because they make you who you are. Growing up on a council estate, I feel like that's made me the person I am, made me create the art, and I just want the visuals to reflect that and be real. Because although I love conveying fantasy worlds and things like that, I do feel like sometimes realism is very important. And the brutal nature of London is the making of me personally as an artist. And although I like to be away with the fairies, it's good to come back down to earth and to portray that".