Stella Donnelly Returns, Announces New Album 'Love And Fortune'

Last month, Stella Donnelly released her first new music since her 2022 album, Flood.

The double A-side, Baths and Standing Ovation, merely hinted at what was to come for the Perth/Boorloo-raised, Melbourne/Naarm-based singer-songwriter, who today announces her long-awaited new album.

On Friday, 7 November, Stella Donnelly will release her highly personal new record, Love And Fortune, via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control. She’s also unveiled the single Feel It Change, which just premiered on Huw Stephens’ BBC 6 Music show.

Reflecting on the song’s creation, Donnelly said, “I wrote this song on a baritone guitar in the shed of my sharehouse, plugged into all of my housemate’s overdrive pedals. I think the neighbours started getting shitty after a while because I stewed on the same chords for ages.

“It’s about the rumination of slowly peeling off the band-aid of a relationship that was doomed to fall apart. Trying to capture that phase of a breakup where all you do is bristle and fizz in resentment and finger-pointing.”

You can listen to Feel It Change below.

Donnelly recorded the new album in Melbourne with longtime collaborators and friends Marcel Tussie, Jack Gaby and Julia Wallace, and new guests Sophie Ozard, Timothy Harvey, and Ellie Mason. A collection of breakup songs, but not as you know them, Love And Fortune is about the dissolution of relationships and a release of expectations.

“These songs wouldn't leave me alone,” Donnelly explained. “Like seagulls, they screamed at me when I rode to work, they pecked at me while I wrote essays, and they stole my chips the second I thought I was happier without music.”

You can pre-order/pre-save the album here.

The album marks Donnelly’s first release on her new label home. “It felt like the right time for a reset, creatively, personally, and professionally,” she said of the signing.

“I could think of no better home for these songs than Dot Dash. I’m so grateful to have found a team who genuinely believe in the music and have given me the space to explore what this next chapter looks like. I felt very much at home straight away!”