In order to feel extreme happiness, you have to know extreme sadness

Holly Humberstone has announced her second album ‘Cruel World’ and has shared it’s first single ‘Too Love Somebody’ – watch below.

The Grantham singer-songwriter, who won the BRIT Rising Star award in 2022, released the single ‘Die Happy’ in November, her first new music since the 2024 EP ‘Work In Progress’, itself the follow-up to her 2023 debut LP ‘Paint My Bedroom Black’.

Now, she has announced her comeback, confirming that ‘Cruel World’ will be released on April 10 – pre-order your copy here.

The first taste of it is ‘To Love Somebody’, a confessional and boldly vulnerable pop track that sees her singing, “in the movie of your life / You’re the first to die / And the critics called it trash.” Check out its official video, complete with German expressionist film references from director Silken Weinberg, here:

Humberstone has said: “The record explores love as lovely and inherently painful. In ‘To Love Somebody’, I wanted to capture that contradiction: to love somebody, is to hurt somebody and to lose somebody, well at least you got to love somebody. in order to feel extreme happiness, you have to know extreme sadness. That’s the tension of the record.”

The singer has also announced a string of headline shows in Europe and the UK to come from

Published: 2026/01/31 15:17:59