Holly Humberstone On Gracie Abrams, 'Cruel World' & Festival Summer

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Holly Humberstone is pretty sure she’s gotten away with something. “I love touring so much. I can easily see why people would hate it, but I can't really believe that I get to do it and that it's my job,” the 26-year-old singer-songwriter tells me on Zoom from her London flat, where she's just come inside from working in her garden. “I feel as if I've played the system somehow.”

It's the kind of perspective that makes a stacked summer of festival appearances feel like a gift instead of a grind. Humberstone has Governor’s Ball, All Things Go, and Bonnaroo on the books, and she's about to take her second studio album, Cruel World, all the way around the festival circuit. Since the album dropped on April 10, she’s previewed it everywhere from Coachella to BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend, and the festival run is about to be her biggest stretch yet. “All of this album was written here in London whilst having serious Read Entire Article