Rosa Walton on 'Tell Me It's A Dream,' Let's Eat Grandma and Cyberpunk 2077 (#290)

Rosa Walton joins Mark Millar on the XS Noize Podcast to discuss her debut solo album, Tell Me It's A Dream, out now via Transgressive Records.

Best known as one half of Let's Eat Grandma alongside Jenny Hollingworth, Rosa steps into a bold new chapter with her most personal and expansive work to date — a record full of light, colour, open skies, friendship, dreams and emotional honesty.

In this conversation, Rosa talks about why Tell Me It's A Dream did not feel like a solo project made to prove a point, but rather a natural space to explore songs that did not quite fit inside Let's Eat Grandma.

She reflects on making music outside the band, developing a different vocal style, writing constantly, and how the album became a world of its own.

Rosa also discusses working with Sam E Yamaha, recording in Wales at StudiOwz, and co-producing the album with David Wrench, whose long creative relationship with Rosa helped make the process feel safe, open and freeing.

The conversation also explores songs including "Sorry Anyway," "Prettier Things," "Heart To Heartbreak" and "Halfway Round The World," as well as Jenny Hollingworth appearing as Jenny On Holiday on "Prettier Things."

Elsewhere, Rosa reflects on the huge life of "I Really Want To Stay At Your House" from Cyberpunk 2077, why the song's success felt disorientating, and how she separated that moment from the guitar-led world of Tell Me It's A Dream.

As Rosa says in the episode, if Tell Me It's A Dream was a place, it would be a vast, freeing, dreamlike landscape in the sky — with ice cream.

Listen to episode #290 of the XS Noize Podcast with Rosa Walton.