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Stella Donnelly has announced a new album, 'Flood'

Set to arrive on 26th August via Secretly Canadian, it comes alongside a lead single, 'Lungs'.

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May 10, 2022 • 6:49 PM

Stella Donnelly has announced a new album, 'Flood'.

Set to arrive on 26th August via Secretly Canadian, it comes alongside a lead single, 'Lungs'.

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Stella Donnelly has announced a new album, 'Flood'.

Set to arrive on 26th August via Secretly Canadian, it comes alongside a lead single, 'Lungs'.

During her time in the rainforests of Australia’s Bellingen, one of the many cities she lived throughout her time writing this album, Donnelly took to birdwatching. By paying closer attention to the natural world around her, she was “able to lose that feeling of anyone’s reaction to me. I forgot who I was as a musician, which was a humbling experience of just being; being my small self.” Reconnecting with the “small self” allowed Donnelly to tap into creative wells she didn’t know existed; she wrote 43 tracks as she moved out of Bellingen and around the country. “I had so many opportunities to write things in strange places,” Donnelly remarks, having passed through Fremantle, Williams, Guilderton, Margaret River and Melbourne. “I often had no choice about where I was. There’s no denying that not being able to access your family with border closures, it zooms in on those parts of your life you care about.”

The new track comes alongside a video, co-drected alongside Duncan Wright. Stella explains: "Very loosely based on the Banded Stilts of my album cover, the character I play in red is a wobbly adult, doing their best with their new set of legs and responsibilities, trying to make it look easy but very much on unsteady ground. I wanted this video to celebrate the child, firm in their footholds, intimidatingly honest, not to be messed with, they are the strength and power of this video no matter how much I try to assert myself as the boss. The clip is choreographed by Donnelly’s childhood friends, sisters Billie, Nikki, and Stevie Tanner, who run the Tanner Dance Academy. “They weaved so much beauty in their choreography and also let the dancers apply their own take to the movements which really shines through in the static shots. Grace Goodwin who produced, set-designed and costumed the clip was integral in creating my stilted character and creating a point of difference between that and my child self.”

You can check it out below.