Carla Dal Forno Shares “Going Out” Video From Upcoming Album Confession
- The Night Temple
- 13 hours ago
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Australia’s Carla dal Forno announces plans her upcoming album titled Confession on April 24th on Kallista Records.
She launches the lead single “Going Out” with a music video directed by Hanna Chetwin. “Going Out” is a, minimal, intimate dream-pop track that spirals through themes of desire and denial.
Carla dal Forno :
“‘Going Out’ was the first song I wrote for the record. It arrived very quickly — the music felt propulsive, almost like moving towards something you can’t undo.”
Confession is an album about closeness that arrives unexpectedly, and the emotional shifts that follow. It explores stability alongside desire, and the way friendships and long-term relationships can subtly change over time.
Dal Forno’s fourth LP was written and recorded over several years in Castlemaine, Victoria, in a studio housed inside a partially abandoned hospital. Long corridors, humming lights, and empty rooms created an environment that shaped the album’s quiet, attentive atmosphere.
“I live in a small country town that offers a stillness my life didn’t previously have,” she explains. “In that quiet, feelings I might’ve ignored in a busy city grew loud.”
The album moves through paired states: going out and staying in, wanting and withholding, devotion and distraction. A long-term relationship provides stability and routine, while a newer connection introduces uncertainty, bringing moments of longing, jealousy, and reflection.
“At the heart of the album is a friendship that became emotionally char
ged in an unexpected way,” dal Forno says. “That shift brought daydreaming, jealousy, tenderness, confusion, self-awareness — and eventually acceptance.”
Where earlier releases often maintained a sense of distance, Confession turns inward. Dal Forno’s voice sits close in the mix, delivered plainly and conversationally, with lyrics that focus on small emotional shifts within everyday life.
Musically, the record draws from understated strands of post-punk, indie pop, and dream pop. Melodic basslines anchor the arrangements while guitars, harmonies, and lightly off-kilter rhythms move around them, creating a sound that is both restrained and fluid. The album reflects influences ranging from the minimalism of Marine Girls and the Cannanes to the atmospheric textures of Broadcast and AC Marias.
Instrumental passages appear throughout the record as quiet transitions, creating space between the album’s more lyrical moments and reinforcing its reflective tone.
Across Confession, dal Forno focuses on ordinary spaces and interior change. The album traces how desire, friendship, and long-term commitment can coexist, and how clarity often arrives gradually rather than all at once.
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