Confession

The Australian musician wrote her fourth album in the small country town in Victoria, where she moved after the pandemic following many years spent living in London and Berlin. Perhaps it was the change of pace that inspired <i>Confession</i>’s directness; in the relative stillness of the country, her feelings became loud and impossible to ignore. Recorded inside a partially abandoned hospital with echoing corridors and humming lights, the songs of <i>Confession</i> circle around ideas of upheaval versus stability, telling the loose story of a friendship that grows into something more. In her signature mode of gently eerie darkwave folk, dal Forno details an all-encompassing infatuation on tracks like “Going Out” and “Confession”, the latter a post-punk dub-pop number about a comically one-sided friend-crush. Like night falling on the desert, the relationship steadily deepens, as on “Under the Covers”, a Broadcast-inspired ode to the surprising ways that intimacy sets in.