After taking the Cosmo Quiz, if there’s one person we’d want to spend our summer with, it’s Holly Humberstone. Whether it’s her ethereal style, her impeccably curated Instagram dumps, or, of course, her incredible vocals, she’s someone we want to spend lazy afternoons in a beer garden with. But booking time into Holly’s diary proves to be a tricky task, with the 26-year-old singer/songwriter jetting off on her U.S. tour in June, before hot-footing it back to the UK for a string of highly anticipated festival appearances, fresh off the back of her new album, Cruel World.
Following the release of her debut Paint My Bedroom Black, which was named one of the best albums of the year by Rolling Stone in 2023, Holly performed as an opener for Taylor Swift during the Eras Tour.
Crafted over two years, Cruel World takes U.S. to a dark fairy-tale world rooted in fun and play, inspired by moments from Holly’s childhood, all while exploring love in its many varied and complicated forms. As Holly describes in her Cosmo Quiz, she believes love at its core to be “inherently painful” but also the “best and worst” thing in the world.
It’s these shades of light and dark that have made us fall head over heels for Holly while also making her the perfect beer garden companion. Because who else could you discuss the pain of heartbreak while also sharing a love of ramen with?
Name:
Holly Humberstone
Nickname:
Star sign:
Sag Sun, Aries Moon, and Scorpio Rising...
Relationship status:
Taken, sorry
How I want to spend my summer:
The album I’d take on a desert island:
Best food to order after a night out:
Always ramen because it fixes everything
App that takes up most of my screen time:
Love is:
Inherently painful at its core. It can be the best and worst thing in the world. Feeling it all is part of the human experience and you just gotta ride it out ♥
The hardest part of writing music is:
And the most rewarding is:
Making connections with total strangers
What I tell myself before hitting the stage:
It’s not summer without...
Endless festivals
My three festival essentials are:
Favourite gig I’ve ever played:
Glasto, hands down
My dream summer holiday destination is:
You’ll always find this artist on my playlist:
Paul Simon my king
You’ll never catch me without this in my bag:
My South London secret:
Life right now is:
