This week’s PBS Feature Album is Confession, the fourth LP release from post-punk folk artist Carla dal Forno. Written and recorded over several years in a small country town, in a studio housed inside a partially abandoned hospital, Confession is an album about closeness that arrives late and unexpectedly.
It's about stability rubbing up against desire. It's about the way friendship can suddenly tilt into something charged — and how that charge unsettles everything around it. Where earlier work often observed from a distance, Confession turns inward. The voice is closer, warmer, less shielded.
Confession moves through paired states: going out and staying in, wanting and withholding, devotion and distraction. Domestic calm set against private unrest. A long-held relationship offers safety and routine, while a newer connection opens emotional fault lines — longing, jealousy, fantasy, self-exposure. “At the heart of the album is a friendship that became emotionally charged in an unexpected way,” dal Forno says. “That shift brought daydreaming, jealousy, tenderness, confusion, self-awareness — and eventually acceptance.”
The album traces a subtle arc: attraction blooming where it shouldn’t; obsession quietly taking hold; fantasy overtaking reality; clarity arriving slowly, sometimes painfully. Visually and emotionally, Confession returns to modest spaces: backyards, beds, night streets, overgrown paths. “The record exists in that contrast,” dal Forno reflects. “Peaceful surroundings, unsettled interior.” Like all of dal Forno’s work, Confession resists clean conclusions. It doesn’t moralise desire or romanticise restraint. Instead, it lingers in the in-between — where love is stable but not total, where yearning teaches as much as it hurts, where solitude becomes a form of care.
Ahead of the album's release on April 24, catch dal Forno celebrating the album with two nights of performances at Hope St Radio on April 22 and 23 with Blue Communications and Early World.
Listen back to Carla dal Forno's intimate Studio 5 Live performance on The Breakfast Spread here.
Tune in all this week to hear tracks from Confession. PBS Members have the chance to win a vinyl copy of the album - simply email your name and membership number to before midnight Sunday April 26.
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TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING THIS WEEK
Massive Attack, Tom Waits - 'Boots on the Ground'
Tony Soprano Band - 'Brainstorming'
Lyra Pramuk - 'Ending' (Djrum Endless Rework)
Now Always Fades - 'Faceless Angel'
Leah Senior - 'Mothersong'
Seefeel - 'Until Now'
Squarepusher - 'K8 Park'
The Gnomes - 'Magic Man'
Parlor Greens - 'Eat Your Greens'
Fancy Weapon - 'Squid'
