Rising singer-songwriter Hetta Falzon has announced her debut EP ‘Henrietta’, due for release on March 13, alongside sharing new single ‘Belly Laugh’. The 9-track EP is available for pre-order on vinyl via Hetta’s store.
Marking a new chapter for the Manchester-based artist, the EP captures Hetta at her most self-aware and emotionally articulate yet – balancing tenderness, humour and quiet self-reckoning across a collection of deeply personal songs.
Following recent releases ‘Thank God It’s Mum’s (Live at Mum’s)’, ‘The Rabbit Hole’ and ‘I Hope You Notice Me’, Henrietta expands Hetta’s soft, soulful world while keeping its emotional core intact. Where earlier releases leaned into stillness and vulnerability, the EP introduces moments of lightness and observational wit – songs that don’t shy away from heartbreak, but aren’t afraid to smile at it either.
New single ‘Belly Laugh’ sits at the heart of that shift. Warm, conversational and quietly cutting, the track reflects on a relationship built on kindness and comfort – but missing something essential. It’s a song about realising what absence can teach you, told with Hetta’s signature blend of honesty and humour.
Reflecting on the track, Hetta said, “My ex-boyfriend was a wonderful human. He was one of the kindest, most respectful and good-looking people I’ve ever met. He was also one of the most boring. Actually no. He was THE most boring. Bless him. We met on Hinge and so never had the chance to gravitate towards each other; we were just plonked opposite each other at the pub and forced to get on. It was my first time being in a relationship. I didn’t know how I was supposed to feel, and he never gave me a reason to cut, so we kept on seeing each other for eight months.
The more I got to know him, the more aware I was that my feelings for him weren’t deepening. We were completely different people. I don’t think our paths were meant to cross. I don’t think we would have locked eyes across a dance floor in a club. I don’t think we would have found ourselves in the same friendship group. It seemed coincidental that we happened to get on, but never intentional. Eight months down the line, I realised I hadn’t belly laughed with him. Not once. Actually, I had quite a few times, but only about something I had said. It is so hard deciding what’s more important: respect and kindness or humour and friendship, but really, aren’t we supposed to have both?”
Across Henrietta, Hetta leans into that same clarity – examining relationships, family, longing and selfhood with diaristic precision and classical restraint. Her songwriting remains unpolished by design, allowing small details, pauses and emotional contradictions to sit front and centre. It’s music that feels lived-in and quietly brave, shaped as much by orchestral training and choral harmony as it is by contemporary singer-songwriter storytelling. Hetta will be performing the new tracks live during her headline performances in Manchester and London in March, dates below.
Raised in Somerset, Hetta Falzon grew up immersed in orchestras and school musicals before training classically from the age of six. Now based in Manchester and completing her studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, her emotionally honest songwriting has earned her support slots for Billie Marten, Jacob Alon and Searows, alongside her signing to Matt Maltese’s Last Recordings On Earth in 2025.
With influences spanning Matt Maltese, Celeste, Tom Odell and Adrianne Lenker, Hetta continues to carve out a space defined by vulnerability, warmth and understated confidence – music that doesn’t rush to resolve itself, but trusts the power of feeling things fully.
Hetta’s 2026 Headline Tour
March 18, The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester
March 19, Hoxton Hall, London
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