HOLLY HUMBERSTONE - Cruel World ITALIA 90 on an album that included

on an album that included such standouts as “Bodhisattva

You can hear some of this in tracks like Anybody - the startlingly frank opening track about “all the millions of ways I pushed myself out of shape to try to be a nice and sweet girl in order to be loveable” - and the storming and cathartic God Of Everything Else

and was like a lightning strike

like Sisters of Mercy

‘Hell’s Itch’ hypnotises with its coiling guitar lines

HOLLY HUMBERSTONE - Cruel World ITALIA 90 on an album that includedCD Holly Humberstone returns with her highly anticipated second album, Cruel World. One of the defining voices of her generation, Holly delivers a record that lives in the tension between pain and pleasure, where chaos and acceptance sit side by side. Renowned for her forensic songwriting earning an Ivor Novello nomination for her debut EP and winning the BRIT Rising Star in 2022 Holly has evolved into a global force whose lucid, emotionally piercing