Fanny Lumsden - Fallow

Fallow is a landmark album that won the ARIA Award for Best Country Album in 2020, along with five Golden Guitars and the AIR Country Album of the Year— a true breakthrough moment for Fanny Lumsden.

“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 just write what I felt, rather than trying to be clever about observations,” she says. “I felt like I learned to see not just the funny, witty stuff anymore. I want to say these things and sing these things because that’s what I’m feeling right now. I’m in this space, so why not celebrate it?”

“I want to be right in touch with everything that’s going on,” she says. It’s just another evolution for Lumsden, an artist who has come of age both in her personal and artistic life. You can hear that journey in Fallow. “It’s a very personal album this one,” she nods. “This is me. Here I am.”

Tracklisting
Mountain Song
This Too Shall Pass
Peed In The Pool
Grown Ups
Fierce
Tidy Town
Fallow
Wishing
These Days
Dig
Black And White
Mountain Song Reprise