Fallow

Cooking Vinyl Australia will release Fanny Lumsden's new album, Fallow, an indelible collection of storytelling that features some of her most intimate songwriting to date. "I wrote this album in amongst a season of change," says Fanny Lumsden of Fallow, her third full-length record. "It was a time of re-evaluation." For an artist who's made her name writing songs packed with clever observations and witty asides, often about the quirks of small-town Australian life, Fallow represents something of a lyrical shift for Lumsden. Her eye for detail is as sharp as ever, but this time the subject matter is more personal. Over the past few years the singer-songwriter has experienced some of life's greatest joys, nowhere more so than in the birth of her son. As she was pregnant, however, her husband and bandmate, Dan Stanley Freeman, lost his mother to cancer. As Lumsden sings in This Too Shall Pass, "Some of this is magic/and some of this is pain." "With this album I was really trying to