Coachella 2026 News: Holly Humberstone to Drop New Album 'Cruel World,' with Summer Tour

Holly Humberstone - who is known for such UK hits as "Work in Progress" and "The Walls Are Way Too Thin" - is set to tour this summer in North American starting in June. 

In addition, the English pop/rock vocalist is set to make festival appearances at Coachella, Bonnaroo, Governors Ball and All Things Go Toronto. On sale now. Full tour routing can be found below.

The forthcoming tour is in support of Humberstone’s sophomore album Cruel World, which is due on April 10 via Interscope Records. 

Lead single “To Love Somebody” has a Silken Weinberg-directed video, inspired by Victorian theatre, the Brothers Grimm and Nosferatu. For Humberstone, “The record explores love as beautiful and inherently painful,” she says.

“I wrote ‘To Love Somebody’ after watching someone close to me go through a brutal heartbreak. It’s better to have loved and lost, even when it sucks, because feeling everything is part of the human experience. Loving hard is a painful thing and there are two sides to love and they exist in the same space to me. They are all real, brutal and vulnerable experiences. This blue and green ball just keeps spinning and you learn to ride things out.”

LISTEN TO/SHARE “TO LOVE SOMEBODY” HERE

WATCH/SHARE “TO LOVE SOMEBODY” HERE
PRE-SAVE CRUEL WORLD HERE

Following her critically acclaimed debut album Paint My Bedroom Black, Cruel World finds Humberstone building a world with sister Eleri and creative director Silken inspired by childhood trinkets unearthed while leaving the haunted house she grew up in. From ballet shoes, Alice in Wonderland books and films like Edward Scissorhands and James and the Giant Peach, sifting through her girlhood belongings reframed the ghosts of Humberstone's past. 

Cruel World was written with a new discipline through daily studio sessions with collaborator Rob Milton and draws deeply on love (romantic, platonic and feminine). Raised among strong women, Humberstone speaks to the way girls are taught to see one another as competition, unlearning that instinct and reclaiming solidarity as survival. 

Gothic love songs on the record like “Die Happy” explore devotion, danger and desire, pulling from fairytales, Dracula and the ache of seasons changing. 

LISTEN TO/SHARE “DIE HAPPY” HERE
WATCH/SHARE THE OFFICIAL VIDEO HERE

Last month, Humberstone returned to “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” to perform “To Love Somebody.”

WATCH/SHARE THE LATE NIGHT PERFORMANCE HERE

Since emerging with the EP Falling Asleep At The Wheel five years ago, Humberstone has played the stages of Glastonbury, Lollapalooza and Wembley Stadium where she opened for Taylor Swift. The singer won the BRIT Rising Star in 2022, received an Ivor Novello nomination for "Haunted House” and released Paint My Bedroom Black in 2023.

Tour dates:

April 10 - Indio, CA - Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
April 17 - Indio, CA - Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
June 3 - Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
June 4 - Montreal, QC - Beanfield Theatre
June 6 - Toronto, ON - All Things Go Toronto
June 7 - Queens, NY - Governors Ball Music Festival
June 9 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of The Living Arts
June 10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
June 12 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
June 13 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival
June 15 - Detroit, MI - Saint Andrew’s Hall
June 16 - Chicago, IL - The Vic Theatre
June 19 - Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theater
June 21 - Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre
June 22 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Complex - The Grand
June 24 - Seattle, WA - The Showbox
June 25 - Vancouver, BC - The Commodore Ballroom
June 26 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theater
June 28 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore