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Carla dal Forno
AGENTMichaël Bardier
Carla dal Forno makes music at the threshold of things — the point where friendship becomes something else, where quiet becomes charged, where ordinary life accumulates into something that needs to be said out loud. The Australian composer and multi-instrumentalist has spent a decade building a body of work defined by restraint and precision, rooted in the spare traditions of post-punk, dream-pop, and home recording.
Confession, her fourth album on her own Kallista Records (released April 24, 2026), is her most fully realised yet. Written over several years as an intensely private project, it traces what dal Forno describes as "a friendship that became emotionally charged in an unexpected way" — the particular upheaval of closeness that arrives unexpectedly, of longing and jealousy rubbing up against stability, of the ordinary tilting into something that can no longer be ignored. Where earlier work leaned toward abstraction, Confession moves into emotional directness. "I couldn't hide behind abstraction," she has said. "The songs only worked when I leaned into emotional truth."
The album was recorded in a small studio inside a partially abandoned hospital in regional Victoria, and the environment shaped everything. "In that quiet, feelings I might've ignored in a busy city grew loud." That stillness is audible in the music — in the elastic basslines, the melodic arrangements, the instrumental interludes that function as breathing room within the record's emotional arc. It is a sound lighter on its feet than its subject matter suggests, drawing on post-punk, dream-pop, and dub while remaining distinctly its own. The album moves from attraction through obsession to acceptance — without moralising desire, and without looking away from it.
Dal Forno releases all her work through Kallista Records, the label she founded in 2019, maintaining full creative control over what she makes and when it reaches the world. It is an approach consistent with a sensibility that has always trusted its own pace — and known, when the time comes, exactly what it needs to say.
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