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Stella Donnelly / Love Is In The Air (John Paul Young)

We got know a bit of the world as Stella Donnelly sees it on her slept-on 2019 debut Beware of Dogs, a well-crafted document of guitar-based indie-pop surrounding her work as a woman and the lovelorn of it all. Even if you didn’t, then you needn’t worry, because the Australian artist’s sophomore follow-up Flood, due out in late August, is a personal and creative restart of sorts for the songwriting after pushing herself to experiment beyond the borders of guitar pop and look further within as she she wrote the album amidst travels in Bellingen rainforests and birdwatching.

“Maybe it’s the last time that I’ll see ya / Puttin’ too much salt on the story / It’s not lovin’ if you fake it / There’s a limit to your mood,” she chirps in on its opener and lead single “Lungs” across excitable drumming, synth twinkles and a debonair flourish of piano keys beneath them, bringing a dance symmetry to that energy into her reflection. Like the Banded Stilts which adorn the album’s art work, Donnelly is relearning to walk through this life with herself and around others.

In its music video directed by Duncan Wright and choreographed by Donnelly’s childhood friends, sisters Billie, Nikki, and Stevie Tanner of the Tanner Dance Academy, they interpret this through the dance of adulting in birdlike form. Breathe through Stella Donnelly’s “Lungs” below…

Stella Donnelly’sFlood will be released August 26th on Secretly Canadian.