Stella Donnelly unveils new album title-track "Flood"

"Flood" is accompanied by a video directed by Donnelly, Nick Mckk and Grace Goodwin, and will appear on Donnelly's second album with last month's lead single "Lungs".

Donnelly says of the new outing, "This song feels like a sad little adventure. I wrote it in the dark depths of a Melbourne winter lockdown where it had been raining for consecutive weeks. Everyone around me was falling into their own version of depression at different times. 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."

Flood will follow Donnelly's 2019 debut album Beware of the Dogs. She wrote the album with band members Jennifer Aslett, George Foster, Jack Gaby and Marcel Tussie, and co-produced the record with Anna Laverty and Methyl Ethyl’s Jake Webb.

A press release states that Donnelly wrote 43 tracks for the new album while moving around Australia. While in the rainforests of Bellingen, Donnelly picked up birdwatching, and was "able to lose that feeling of anyone’s reaction to me. I forgot who I was as a musician, which was a humbling experience of just being; being my small self."