Description:

Confession\’ is an album of quiet upheaval. An album about closeness that arrives late and unexpectedly. About stability rubbing up against desire. About the way friendship can suddenly tilt into something charged and how that charge unsettles everything around it. Where earlier work often observed from a distance, Confession turns inward. The voice is closer, warmer, less shielded. This wasnt the album I intended to make, says Carla dal Forno. I originally wanted something veiled and abstract, but I realised I couldnt hide behind abstraction the songs only worked when I leaned into emotional truth. This is dal Fornos fourth LP, written and recorded over several years in a small country town, in a studio housed inside a partially abandoned hospital. Long corridors, humming lights, emptied rooms a place built for care and waiting, now quiet enough for thoughts to echo. That stillness shapes the record: intimate, watchful, unadorned. I live in a small country town that offers a stillness my life didnt previously have, she explains. In that quiet, feelings I mightve ignored in a busy city grew loud. Dal Forno sings plainly and conversationally, with an emotional precision that sharpens the everyday into something quietly unsettling. The album moves through paired states: going out and staying in, wanting and withholding, devotion and distraction. Domestic calm set against private unrest. A long-held relationship offers safety and routine, while a newer connection opens emotional fault lines longing, jealousy, fantasy, self-exposure. At the heart of the album is a friendship that became emotionally charged in an unexpected way, dal Forno says. That shift brought daydreaming, jealousy, tenderness, confusion, self-awareness and eventually acceptance. The drama here is internal, incremental, lived. Musically, Confession feels lighter on its feet than its subject matter suggests. Melodic basslines anchor the songs while guitars, harmonies, and gently off-kilter rhythms move around them. Theres a looseness, even a playfulness like the sensation of tension lifting once you finally admit something to yourself, as dal Forno puts it. The album traces a subtle arc: attraction blooming where it shouldnt; obsession quietly taking hold; fantasy overtaking reality; clarity arriving slowly, sometimes painfully. Visually and emotionally, Confession returns to modest spaces: backyards, beds, night streets, overgrown paths. The record exists in that contrast, dal Forno reflects. Peaceful surroundings, unsettled interior. Like all of dal Fornos work, Confession resists clean conclusions. It doesnt moralise desire or romanticise restraint. Instead, it lingers in the in-between where love is stable but not total, where yearning teaches as much as it hurts, where solitude becomes a form of care. Plain-spoken but emotionally complex. Rooted and restless. Held together by bass, breath, routine, weather. An album about admitting what you feel and living with what that admission changes. 1. Going Out 2. Confession 3. Drip Drop 4. Under The Covers 5. Nighttime 6. On the Ward 7. Blue Skies 8. I Go Back 9. Off the Beaten Track 10. Alone With You 11. Gave You Up 12. Staying In