[Cover photo credit to Sanjay Fernandez]

Australian artist Carla dal Forno has announced plans to release a new album titled Confession on April 24th, 2026, via her Kallista Records imprint. The announcement comes with the release of lead single “Going Out” which comes with a video directed by Hanna Chetwin. “Going Out” is a song that “spirals through desire and denial.”

Carla dal Forno shares about the track:

‘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.

The artist says about the album, which deals with themes of upheaval:

This wasn’t the album I intended to make. I originally wanted something veiled and abstract, but I realised I couldn’t hide behind abstraction — the songs only worked when I leaned into emotional truth.

This is dal Forno’s fourth LP, written and recorded over several years in a small country town, in a studio housed inside a partially abandoned hospital.

She explains:

I live in a small country town that offers a stillness my life didn’t previously have. In that quiet, feelings I might’ve ignored in a busy city grew loud.

At the heart of the album is a friendship that became emotionally charged in an unexpected way. That shift brought daydreaming, jealousy, tenderness, confusion, self-awareness — and eventually acceptance.