Ciaran Picker

Infusing punchy, earnest folk-rock with hard-hitting introspection, Heidi Curtis’ debut EP ‘Hollow Heart’ is the culmination of 20 years of graft, grief, and gratitude. Some people are destined to be musicians. Heidi Curtis is one of them. “I was always really enchanted by music,” she recalls, “it’s always been something that’s been a part of me.

New Music Friday can be a lot. That's why every week we cut it down to the songs you need to hear for PLAY, our new music edit, and deliver a new cover feature to go alongside it. This week... Beartooth. When Caleb Shomo left Attack Attack! in 2014, he walked away from a scene in which he had "a lot of turmoil I wanted to get away from", and into Beartooth: a snarling, malevolent exercise in catharsis.

Switching out the synth-pop that got her this far, Rosa Walton used her debut solo record, 'Tell Me It's a Dream', to explore the more organic side of things, creating an energetic, earnest collection of guitar-driven songs that allow her to get to a more vulnerable place than ever before. After more than ten years as one half of experimental pop duo Let's Eat Grandma, it's maybe not a surprise that Rosa craved something different, a change of pace and a development of new skills.