Cat Burns - How To Be Human (Album Review) - Stereoboard UK

Cat Burns - How To Be Human (Album Review) - Stereoboard UK

Following a Mercury Prize nomination for 2024’s ‘Early Twenties’, Cat Burns confronts grief and heartbreak with unflinching honesty on her second album. Across 16 tracks, ‘How To Be Human’ documents the loss of her grandfather and post-breakup devastation alongside the blossoming hope of new love, trading sonic ambition for emotional directness.

Album Review: Cat Burns – How To Be Human

Cat Burns has always had a way of making the smallest feelings sound enormous. Her songs have never relied on noise or gloss, they sit quietly, speak clearly, and hit straight where it hurts. Her second full-length album How To Be Human is no different; it’s a record about learning to live through heartbreak, grief, and growing pains, and somehow keeping your softness intact. How To Be Human follows the success of her debut Early Twenties, which…