Out now: Stella Donnelly – Love and Fortune

Stella Donnelly releases Love and Fortune, her highly anticipated third studio album, out now. Love and Fortune marks a brave and vulnerable return to self for the Boorloo-born, Naarm-based singer-songwriter, written during a period of rest and reflection amid the wattle-lined streets and creeks of Melbourne’s inner north. Stella recently announced her first international tour in over two years, with dates on sale now across Australia, United Kingdom, Europe and Japan.

Previous singles ‘Baths’, ‘Standing Ovation’, ‘Year of Trouble’ and ‘Feel It Change’ offered glimpses into the heartbreak at the core of Love and Fortune, while the full album captures the ongoing emotional impact of a friendship breakdown. Love and Fortune blends pianos and guitars, as in her earlier work, but this time the arrangements are more exposed, more intentional. Joining Donnelly on the record are longtime collaborators and friends Marcel Tussie, Jack Gaby and Julia Wallace and new guests Sophie Ozard, Timothy Harvey, and Ellie Mason.

With this, the album captures the stiller self, the reflective self, that gently asks where to next. There is a clarity here, the kind that comes from reconnecting with what matters. The result is Donnelly’s most open-hearted and self-assured work to date — a record about loss, certainly, but even more about the quiet, enduring fortune of finding one’s way home.

Donnelly will be performing live in-store and signing records at Soundmerch in Melbourne on Thursday 13th November from 6pm. See poster for full details.

Listen / purchase Love and Fortune here.

Stella Donnelly – Love and Fortune Tour

Thu 19 Feb – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney, NSW
Fri 20 Feb – The Triffid, Brisbane, QLD
Fri 27 Feb – Lion Arts Factory, Adelaide, SA
Sat 28 Feb – Corner Hotel, Melbourne, VIC
Fri 06 Mar – The Rechabite, Perth, WA

Thu 19 Mar – Clwb Main Room, Cardiff
Sat 21 Mar – Wardrobe, Leeds
Sun 22 Mar – Glasgow
Mon 23 Mar – YES, Manchester
Wed 25 Mar – Bush Hall, London
Thu 26 Mar – Fleece, Bristol
Fri 27 Mar – DUST, Brighton

Sun 29 Mar – Witloof Bar, Brussels
Tue 31 Mar – Mikropol, Berlin
Wed 1 Apr – Pandora Tivoli, Utrecht
Thu 2 Apr – Hasard Ludique, Paris

Tue 7 Apr – Umeda Club Quattro, Osaka
Wed 8 Apr – Nagoya Club Quattro, Nagoya
Thu 9 Apr – Duo Music Exchange, Tokyo

Tickets available via stelladonnelly.com