Stella Donnelly announces second album ‘Flood’ and shares new song ‘Lungs’

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Stella Donnelly has announced her second album ‘Flood’ – listen to new single ‘Lungs’ below.The forthcoming record is described as the singer-songwriter’s “record of rediscovery: the product of months of risky experimentation, hard moments of introspection, and a lot of transition”.Featuring 11 tracks, the album will arrive on August 26 via Secretly Canadian.

You can pre-order/pre-save it here.‘Lungs’ comes with an official video that Donnelly co-directed alongside Duncan Wright. “Very loosely based on the Banded Stilts of my [‘Flood’] 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,” she explained.“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 visuals were 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,” Donnelly added.“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.”According to a press release, Donnelly wrote 43 tracks for ‘Flood’ while visiting the rainforests of Australia’s Bellingen and moving around the country.