Stella Donnelly - Love and FortuneOn Love and Fortune, the third album from Australian musician Stella Donnelly and first for Brace Yourself Records, Donnelly returns with a deeply personal and anchored set of songs, a body of work that traces the journey back to herself after a period of profound change. Recorded in Naarm Melbourne, the album carries the grounding energy of place, offering a sonic landscape that feels both intimate and expansive. After several intense years on the

making maps of new tunes so complete they might as well have topographical contour lines

The duo were joined by jazz musician Greg Heath and accomplished percussionist Ric Elsworth for the day

where frontwoman Alicia Bognanno used to intern

Daughter of Swords’ music has grown thornier

sunny afternoon in Dolores Park

And for many there is further significant comfort to be drawn from the knowledge that Paul Weller is in the midst of an unbelievably prolific purple patch

while the two-drum assault of "Ex-Spectator" (courtesy of Brendan Canty and second drummer Jerry Busher) has just as much potency on disc as it does live

Gill describes a chance encounter with an abandoned Squire Strat left in the basement by a previous tenant

Strut's original Nigeria 70 set broke the mould for African compilations when it first surfaced in September 2001

It does start to destroy you and the album is kind of a documentation of that destruction and collapse as well as the strength we’ve got to get through it all

Regarded as pioneers in avant-garde German electronic music

and we came out with more than we ever intended