Holy Pinto, the indie-pop project of British songwriter Aymen Saleh has released new single, “Billboard.” The track arrives after the recent announcement his new album, Wedding Season, dropping on September 14th. “”Billboard” is a reflection about carrying the baggage we hold within ourselves. Saleh carefully crafts this soulful composition to evoke the emotion surrounding the parts of ourselves we always carry, but never acknowledge”, says the artist. The writing for Wedding Season took its time to come together, started in 2021 and labored over for years.

Saleh grew up in Canterbury, England, started Holy Pinto there and eventually relocated to Milwaukee, finding a city that made unexpected sense to him. He connected with it’s music scene, its bar culture and its blue collar warmth. It’s the kind of city where it’s easy to meet people and easy to end up talking for hours. Wedding Season is full of Saleh’s songs about love, distance, doubt, and adulthood, but it is also threaded through with voices from outside his own head, including field recordings of late-night conversations with friends and kindred souls at neighboring bar stools. Saleh remains the central narrator, but he uses the people around him to complicate and echo his own experience.

Parts of the album began in Washington, D.C., in the basement of Bartees Strange home, much of it was written and recorded in Saleh’s apartment above a Brady Street bar in Milwaukee, interspersed with DIT sessions in spaces including a rural Wisconsin boat warehouse, a southern Illinois cathedral and an industrial piano repair shop. Along the way, he became less interested in documenting songs in their simplest form than in building a record that could hold all the strange little details he wanted it to hold: room tone, overheard stories, bits of atmosphere, moments of humor, moments of panic, and the ornamental flourishes that make a song feel inhabited.

After years of starting over, second-guessing himself, and sitting with the material long past the point when most musicians would have rushed it out, Saleh has made a record, where a songwriter is trying to make sense of his life by pulling other voices into the frame. It is patient, searching, and obsessively assembled. It’s the work of an artist who kept obsessing over an idea until he finally cracked it.

Holy Pinto
Wedding Season
Tracklisting

1. Dandelion i
2. Us, Forever
3 Us, Married
4. NOLY
6. Death Is In The Air
7. She Loves You
8. One Tattoo
9. Reunited
10. Pharmacy
11. Special
12. Complaint Dept.
13. Us, Against The World
14. Mr. Writer
15. Monster
16. We’re All Doomed Forever
17. Billboard
18. Dandelion ii

Holy Pinto 2026 Tour Dates

8/1 – Appleton, WI – Mile of Music Festival
9/5 – Milwaukee, WI – Vivarium

Pre order Wedding Season by Holy Pinto HERE