It’s often in stillness when emotions tend to overwhelm and take root. Alt-folk phenom Emma Hessels knows this all too well: her silky, evocative voice has a way of hitting you straight in the heart like a cupid’s arrow. Hessels sings songs of longing, of love, of loneliness – delicate and powerful, and performed with an undeniable glow.

Hessels’s debut EP Constant Distance – out via Unday Records – comes in the wake of gorgeous singles like “Always Lost” and “Insular”. With opening slots for Cat Power, Jensen McRae and Mavis Staples already under her belt, the future for this singular emerging talent is as bright as can be.