Carla dal Forno – Going Out
Carla dal Forno announces her fourth album, Confession, due April 24 on her own Kallista Records label. “Going Out” is the lead single, accompanied by a video directed by Hanna Chetwin. The album follows Come Around (2022) and was written and recorded over several years in a small country town in Australia, in a studio housed inside a partially abandoned hospital. Dal Forno also hosts on NTS radio.
“Going Out” was the first song she wrote for the record, and it opens the album. It arrived quickly, she says — “the music felt propulsive, almost like moving towards something you can’t undo”. The track is built on a strong melodic bassline, slinky understated synths, and dal Forno’s cool, close vocal singing plainly about wanting someone who’s dating an old friend. The restraint is the point: the desire is stated directly, the production never overplays, and that tension between composure and fixation is what makes it land. One source reached for “Paparazzi” by way of Young Marble Giants as a frame of reference, and it’s not entirely wrong — there’s a pop structure underneath the haze.
Confession is described by dal Forno as “an album of quiet upheaval”, tracing a friendship that became emotionally charged in an unexpected way. She had originally intended something more veiled and abstract: “I realised I couldn’t hide behind abstraction — the songs only worked when I leaned into emotional truth”. What I find interesting is that the record sounds exactly like that pivot — the emotion is right there on the surface, held in place by production that doesn’t flinch. It’s here because dal Forno keeps making records that trust the listener to sit with discomfort.
Tracklist:
- Going Out
- Confession
- Drip Drop
- Under the Covers
- Nighttime
- On the Ward
- Blue Skies
- I Go Back
- Off the Beaten Track
- Alone With You
- Gave You Up
- Staying In
