{"id":2140615,"date":"2025-11-07T08:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2140615"},"modified":"2025-11-07T08:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:56:07","slug":"how-a-break-from-music-led-to-stella-donnellys-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-a-break-from-music-led-to-stella-donnellys-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Break From Music Led to Stella Donnelly&#8217;s New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stella Donnelly has released <em>Love and Fortune<\/em>, the long-awaited follow-up to 2022\u2019s <em>Flood<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Out today via Dot Dash Recordings \/ Remote Control, a press release described Donnelly\u2019s album as \u201ca deeply personal and anchored body of work that traces the journey back to herself after a period of profound change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was good reason for the gap between records:\u00a0<em>Love and Fortune<\/em> arrives after a period of quiet reflection for the Melbourne-based singer-songwriter, a necessary endeavour following several intense years of touring.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <em>Rolling Stone AU\/NZ<\/em>, Donnelly opened up about her transformational past few years.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I got to the end of touring the last album and I was thinking about writing another record and I <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kept trying to music, but I just wasn\u2019t liking it. I wasn\u2019t enjoying what I was creating. I wasn\u2019t resonating with it deeply,\u201d she told us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fearing she was only writing songs to \u201cservice my career,\u201d Donnelly was left with a lot of questions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd so I decided to kind of like quit, I say with inverted commas, and just kind of take a break and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be curious about what would happen next and see whether I did enjoy music and writing songs,\u201d she explained. \u201cAnd so yeah, I quit music, got a job in a bakery, just like kind of just had a pretty normal life for about a year. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd as it happens, I started writing songs again. And I think that break was \u2014 I\u2019m so grateful for it now. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So yeah, I\u2019m super happy to be back playing music again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; background: transparent;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/au\/album\/love-and-fortune\/1825275807\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>You can read our full interview with Donnelly next week.<\/p>\n<p><em>Love and Fortune<\/em> features the singles \u201cFeel It Change\u201d, which premiered on Huw Stephens\u2019 BBC 6 Music show, and the double A-side <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/stella-donnelly-shares-first-new-music-in-three-years-81194\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBaths\u201d \/ \u201cStanding Ovation\u201d<\/a>, Donnelly\u2019s first new music since <em>Flood<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Flood<\/em> made it into the top 30 on the ARIA Albums Chart. It also earned a four-star review from <em>Rolling Stone AU\/NZ<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s been three years since the stunning debut from Stella Donnelly, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beware of the Dogs<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but the absence has only sharpened her sound and introspective songwriting,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/stella-donnelly-flood-album-review-43229\/\" target=\"_blank\">we wrote<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe jangling indie-pop gems we\u2019ve come to expect remain, but there are intriguing new layers elsewhere\u2026 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With its thoughtful mixture of sonic experimentation and classic touches, <i>Flood<\/i> achieves exactly what a sophomore album should.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Stella Donnelly\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stelladonnelly.lnk.to\/loveandfortune\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Love and Fortune<\/a> is out now via Dot Dash Recordings \/ Remote Control Records.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stella Donnelly has released Love and Fortune, the long-awaited follow-up to 2022\u2019s Flood. 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