In 1973 his former label, Colombia records, released the much maligned Dylan without the consent of the singer. After unintentionally rising to become the voice of the decade prior, the quality of his output took a steep decline starting with 1970's painfully average covers album Self Portrait and the lackluster keyboard experimentation on New Morning. Looking back at the Banded Stilt, Donnelly ultimately appreciates how when “ seen in a crowd they create an optical illusion, but on its own it’s this singular piece of art.” While each song on ‘Flood’ is a singular artwork unto itself, the collective shares all of Stella Donnelly in abundance: her inner child, her nurturing self, her nightmare self all of herself has gone into the making of this record, and although it would take an ocean to fathom everything she feels, it’s well worth diving in.Review Summary: The Band joins Bob Dylan for a legendary moment in Rock & Roll. Donnelly had not played much piano since her early childhood and there was something wonderfully playful and poignant about climbing back up onto the piano stool and finding her fingers. ‘Flood’ revels in this. This spontaneity saw Donnelly straying from her trusted electric guitar, instead moving to piano and imbuing her new work with a fluidity and vulnerability that befits ‘Flood’’s introspective nature. With new locations came new approaches. Writing with band members Jennifer Aslett, George Foster, Jack Gaby and Marcel Tussie, soon began to feel like kindergarten play, with co-producers Anna Laverty and Methyl Ethyl’s Jake Webb helping to foster an important spontaneity in the studio. Here, she finds herself discovering who she is as an artist among the flock, and how abundant one individual can be. ‘Flood’ is Donnelly’s record of this rediscovery: the product of months of risky experimentation, hard moments of introspection, and a lot of moving around. Like the many Banded Stilts that spread across the cover of her newest album ‘Flood’, Stella Donnelly is wading into uncharted territory. With this video for ‘Flood’, we have made a very feeble attempt at recreating the legendary OK GO video clip for ‘Here it Goes Again’ and we failed gloriously.” Stella shares: “This clip is pure ridiculous play, like going to your grandparents house where you and your cousins would get up to the most elaborate film projects. We always ran around the house making home movies that tried to re-enact other films and much like this clip here, they always ended in some sort of minor catastrophe. It felt like a flood of trauma yet at the same time, we were given an opportunity of time to work through stuff that we’d been distracting ourselves with for so long prior to the pandemic.”ĭirected by Donnelly, Nick McKk and Grace Goodwin, the accompanying Flood video centres on an idyllic summer day - or at least Donnelly’s idiosyncratic version of one. Everyone around me was falling into their own version of depression at different times. I wrote it in the dark depths of a Melbourne winter lockdown where it had been raining for consecutive weeks. Of the release, Donnelly shares: “This song feels like a sad little adventure. First heard on triple j, Flood follows last month’s Lungs, Donnelly’s “masterclass in how to release a single in the spring season” ( Rolling Stone). Today, Stella Donnelly presents Flood the title track/video from her forthcoming album, due out 26 August and available to pre-order HERE.
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