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Holly Humberstone announces new album ‘Cruel World’, releases new single

‘To Love Somebody’ is the first taste of the forthcoming album - listen here.

Date published: 23rd Jan 2026

Holly Humberstone has announced her new album, Cruel World, is due for release on 10th April, and shared new single ‘To Love Somebody’.

The Grantham singer-songwriter’s new album, announced today (23rd January), is set to follow up her 2024 EP Work In Progress, which followed her 2023 debut album Paint My Bedroom Black.

‘To Love Somebody’ is the first taste of the album, a song “for those of us who feel too much”, as Humberstone said in an Instagram post.

Humberstone also announced a string of headline gigs in the UK in March and April, including Glasgow, Manchester, Bristol, and London.

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