Artist:
Holly Humberstone
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Total Time:
38:00
Record Label:
Interscope
Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
April 10, 2026
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Holly Humberstone
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Total Time:
38:00
Record Label:
Interscope
Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
April 10, 2026
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
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Product Description: “I want to provide a safe, otherworldly space where people can get lost,” Holly Humberstone tells Apple Music. “My own world where all of this music and all of these stories can exist. Music for me is such an escape from the realities of life, which these days are scary, harsh, and brutal.”
Enter, then, her second album Cruel World, on which Humberstone explores the rush of new love, heartache, and the growing pains she’s felt as a young woman and an artist against the most confident music she’s created yet. That assurance came, she says, from reconnecting with herself as she was making this record; first, by standing still after years of near-constant touring and second, through clearing out her family home after it was sold. (The beloved house has been so inspiring to Humberstone that it’s practically become a character in its own right in her music; see 2021 track “Haunted House.”) “So much of my identity is rooted there,” says Humberstone of where she grew up. “I found all of my old stuff and was like, ‘Oh wait, this is actually me.’ I feel like I just had forgotten so much about myself.”
Cruel World arrives six years after the Midlands singer-songwriter first started releasing music, and after a steady ascent that’s seen her win fans in Olivia Rodrigo, girl in red, and Taylor Swift (who invited her on The Eras Tour in summer 2024), as well as a BRIT Rising Star Award in 2022. After everything she’s achieved, this is the album, she says, that looks and sounds like what she thought she’d make back when she was 11.
Featuring an organic palette, warm synths, plenty of pop sensibility, and lyrics that are as incisive as they are tongue-in-cheek, Cruel World is loose, liberated—and a lot of fun. “I didn’t feel like I had any boundaries or any limits,” says Humberstone. “There was nothing to stop me from experimenting and trying to redefine myself.” Escape into the singer-songwriter’s world and let her guide you through it, one track at a time.
Enter, then, her second album Cruel World, on which Humberstone explores the rush of new love, heartache, and the growing pains she’s felt as a young woman and an artist against the most confident music she’s created yet. That assurance came, she says, from reconnecting with herself as she was making this record; first, by standing still after years of near-constant touring and second, through clearing out her family home after it was sold. (The beloved house has been so inspiring to Humberstone that it’s practically become a character in its own right in her music; see 2021 track “Haunted House.”) “So much of my identity is rooted there,” says Humberstone of where she grew up. “I found all of my old stuff and was like, ‘Oh wait, this is actually me.’ I feel like I just had forgotten so much about myself.”
Cruel World arrives six years after the Midlands singer-songwriter first started releasing music, and after a steady ascent that’s seen her win fans in Olivia Rodrigo, girl in red, and Taylor Swift (who invited her on The Eras Tour in summer 2024), as well as a BRIT Rising Star Award in 2022. After everything she’s achieved, this is the album, she says, that looks and sounds like what she thought she’d make back when she was 11.
Featuring an organic palette, warm synths, plenty of pop sensibility, and lyrics that are as incisive as they are tongue-in-cheek, Cruel World is loose, liberated—and a lot of fun. “I didn’t feel like I had any boundaries or any limits,” says Humberstone. “There was nothing to stop me from experimenting and trying to redefine myself.” Escape into the singer-songwriter’s world and let her guide you through it, one track at a time.
TRACK LIST:
1 .
So It Starts...
(00:45)
2 . Make It All Better (03:57)
3 . To Love Somebody (03:58)
4 . Cruel World (03:27)
5 . Die Happy (03:49)
6 . White Noise (03:46)
7 . Lucy (02:52)
8 . Red Chevy (03:00)
9 . Drunk Dialling (03:42)
10 . Peachy (02:45)
11 . Blue Dream (03:21)
12 .Beauty Pageant (03:16)
2 . Make It All Better (03:57)
3 . To Love Somebody (03:58)
4 . Cruel World (03:27)
5 . Die Happy (03:49)
6 . White Noise (03:46)
7 . Lucy (02:52)
8 . Red Chevy (03:00)
9 . Drunk Dialling (03:42)
10 . Peachy (02:45)
11 . Blue Dream (03:21)
12 .Beauty Pageant (03:16)
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