Holy Pinto, the indie-pop project of British songwriter Aymen Saleh, has announced his new album ‘Wedding Season’, due out September 14.

The news arrives with ‘One Tattoo’, the album’s lead single, accompanied by a new video. It’s a bright, restless song about love, devotion and the uneasy question of permanence. Saleh describes it as being about “romantic pull and devotion meeting the fear of permanence,” asking whether someone can trade chaos for commitment, and whether a decision that feels certain now can survive the passing of time.

‘Wedding Season’ has been a long time coming. Saleh began work on the album in 2021 and spent years reshaping songs, arrangements and recordings before arriving at the finished record. That patience seems to be part of the point. Holy Pinto has always had a gift for warm, conversational songwriting, but this new album sounds like the fullest version yet of his world: funny, bruised, detailed and very human.

Saleh started Holy Pinto in Canterbury, England, before eventually moving the project to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. That change of place sits right at the heart of ‘Wedding Season’. The album includes songs about love, distance, doubt and adulthood, while also pulling in field recordings of late-night conversations and fragments from the people around him.

The record was made in several unusual spaces, including the basement of Bartees Strange in Washington, D.C., Saleh’s apartment above a Brady Street bar in Milwaukee, a rural Wisconsin boat warehouse, a southern Illinois cathedral and an industrial piano repair shop. Rather than simply documenting the songs, Saleh built them up slowly, leaving room for atmosphere, humour, small details and the messier thoughts that often arrive with time.

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