Held By Trees To Release New Single ‘Not Home Yet’ from ‘The Call of Home’ featuring Simone Marie

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Held By Trees To Release New Single ‘Not Home Yet’ from ‘The Call of Home’ featuring Simone Marie

New video ‘Not Home Yet’ premieres tomorrow on the official Held By Trees YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@HeldByTrees

Held By Trees are set to release a new single ‘Not Home Yet’ on 17 July, ahead of new album ‘The Call of Home’ on 2 October 2026. Featuring Simone Marie formerly of Primal Scream, and currently with The Twilight Sad, the song is accompanied by a striking fanbase-created video.

David Joseph says of the song, “We enter the narrative of the new album with this song about feeling lost and claustrophobic in an urban environment, and longing for the safety of home. This is from the heavier section of the album before things get more peaceful and joyful, but it all works as journey.

I’m delighted to have Simone Marie working with us again, this time singing lead vocals for the first time, I think – which is a real honour. The video for the song was made out of clips sent in from followers of Held By Trees in cities all over the world”.

Simone Marie added, “I thoroughly love and enjoy the process of working with David and Held By Trees. He sent me demos of the new stuff and I felt a connection with it. I heard ideas and melodies  for what he sent me and he gave me confidence and space to find my own way to the parts I contributed. I’m really excited for the whole album to be out in the wild.”

‘The Call of Home’ is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed ‘Hinterland’ and finds the band exploring very different territory, with the album featuring nine tracks with vocals bookended with two more familiar instrumental takes, including for the first time on vinyl, Lay Your Troubles Down with Martin Smith. The album will be released by Tweed Jacket Music / Low Port Music on vinyl, CD and digital formats – but will be initially absent from streaming platforms as each track is released as singles. The striking original artwork, so important to Held By Trees, has been originated by @BlankEmbrace.

‘The Call of Home’ sees a broadening of personnel, with new musical collaborators with backgrounds as diverse as Radiohead and Primal Scream, to Wet Wet Wet and Delirious [Clive Deamer, Simone Marie, Graeme Duffin, and Martin Smith/Stu Garrard respectively]. With David Joseph once again are the core band of Robbie McIntosh, Laurence Pendrous, and Andy Panayi with their shared history with Mark Hollis and Talk Talk, among many others. Still at his side are James Grant and Grant Howard, continuing a friendship and musical partnership spanning over two decades now in various forms. David’s key musical mentors Martin Smith, Jason Upton and Eric Bibb take the vocal mic alongside Simone Marie and Marc James and, in a departure, David even sings a few himself.

David Joseph said, “I’ve made an album of songs with some of our friends singing. It’s a love letter to the music of the 80s and 90s, when I was a youngster falling in love with music through my parent’s records and cassettes, and what I heard on the radio and on Top of the Pops. It’s on the theme of coming home; to reunion, redemption and the warming of the heart through sounds and stories.

This album is a labour of love on many levels, a branching out of what this project is and can be. Over nine songs, bookended with two instrumentals, I hope all who listen find their way home to an embrace that this music can offer the soul.”

Held By Trees is a journey in itself and ‘The Call of Home’ offers new sonic vistas to explore, whilst retaining the heart and hearth of what makes this band special.

Held By Trees LIVE

London – Chats Palace, Hackney
13th November 2026
Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.com/rondotheatre/held-by-trees/e-zpbqxm

Bath – Rondo Theatre
23rd January 2027
Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.com/rondotheatre/held-by-trees/e-zpbqxm

Chelmsford – Chelmsford Social Club
19th February 2027
Tickets: https://wegottickets.com/f/22318

Worcester – Huntingdon Hall
2nd April 2027
Tickets: www.worcestertheatres.co.uk

For more information: www.heldbytrees.co.uk

New video ‘Not Home Yet’ premieres tomorrow on the official Held By Trees YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@HeldByTrees

Press inquiries: Keith James, Glass Onyon PR, PH: 828-350-8158, glassonyonpr@gmail.com (North America, Europe)