Spanish-German singer-songwriter Luna Keller finally grants her longtime live favourite “Holy” an official studio release on 26th October 2025.
The track offers a raw and frayed-edge examination of depression, capturing the dangerous comfort of a struggle that has overstayed its welcome.
“After releasing my concept album Ocean Inside Of Me last year I decided to dedicate 2025 to collaborations, it’s so inspiring to create with other musicians. But now I’m ready to dive back into solo releases, Holy feels like the perfect song to end the year on. Not only do I love playing it live, but I think the way it has grown since I’ve written it makes it a beautiful expression of where I currently am in my artistic journey,” says Keller.
Yet, for all its poignant darkness, there is something inescapably compelling that glues you to it.
It’s the flicker of recognition, that relatable memory of feeling at odds with oneself, which makes the song’s heavy themes so strangely magnetic.
The song’s power hinges on the alchemy between Keller’s raw, unvarnished vocals and the delicate strum of a guitar, creating an aching weight neither element could achieve alone.
This sparse arrangement perfectly frames her profound lyricism. She immediately establishes the song’s central conflict with a devastating contradiction: “Been praying to God as an atheist / Making a list of things I don’t believe in.”
This is not mere wordplay but the sound of a soul reaching for solace in a void, cataloguing a crisis of identity where even disbelief has become a ritual.
That bleak introspection builds into a chorus that lands as a chilling diagnosis rather than a cry for help.
When Keller confesses, “I’ve made suffering holy,” she names the song’s core tragedy: the sanctification of her own pain.
She has twisted her struggle into a perverse identity, becoming “all that I’m not.” The arrangement grows around this revelation, with lush strings and piano rising to enclose the listener in the suffocating, almost sacred space she has built from her despair.
The uneasy calm finally splinters in the bridge with the frantic, repeated warning: “The fuse will blow any day now.”
It is a moment of jarring self-awareness, the stark realisation that this fragile equilibrium cannot hold.
The song’s final twist, however, offers no deliverance; only the quiet inevitability of what’s already been lost.
It circles back to the initial confession, ending on a note of calm, devastating acceptance. “Holy” leaves the listener not with a sense of closure, but with the indelible image of a woman calmly surveying the ruins of her own faith, human once more.
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