Lisa Mitchell Releases Highly Anticipated Album "a place to fall apart"

Australian singer-songwriter Lisa Mitchell has just released her highly anticipated fourth studio album “A Place To Fall Apart” today via Believe.

Speaking on A Place to Fall Apart, “This album is a place to fall apart in. Take this patchwork blanket of melancholic love stories between the human and beyond-human and pitch it as a tent, either inside your lounge-room, or out in the bush. Lie down and look up at the stories. There is someone watching fruit slowly ripen on a tree. There is a girl becoming a river. and another person who is falling in love and turning blue. There is a strange and beautiful noise from far away ancestral lands. a woman is relaxing in a bath-tub somewhere in suburbia. There is a word in the English language that is not needed in the Noongar language. two women sing to a Wollemi pine, summoning their inner knowing. There is a wrestling with ideas of identity and belonging, of tradition and innovation. There is a deep, cold, wide river with two names. The women are singing again and asking the spirits of the land to help them with this modern-mess. There is a girl in her happy place, sitting in an old apricot tree, alone but not lonely. she eats the sweet fruit, it is warm from the sun.

On ‘A Place to Fall Apart’, you follow the intrepid journey of Lisa’s own unraveling. To unravel a thing doesn’t mean to destroy it or even to separate it into a million pieces. An unraveled object becomes a singular piece, stripped bare of the artificial shape and form it held before. Unraveling is the precursor to rebuilding, a transition that can and should be done intentionally. In this album, the listener can hear Mitchell’s attempts to be deliberate about her humanity and her choices.   

There’s a continued theme of embracing humility and dismantling oneself in order to grow and do better in the world is the clarion call of Mitchell’s work. She expresses the severity of climate change and how we absolutely need to do better. The album touches on waking up to the depth of culture all around Mitchell as a non-Indigenous person, and realising the deeper layers of what it means to live in so-called Australia. 

“‘When you go swimming in Dhungalla, everything changes.’ I grew up on Yorta Yorta Country, the area also known as Albury, NSW. It was dry and hot, and we all swam in the cold, wide river at any opportunity. I used to call it the Murray river until I learnt its’, ‘real name,’ is Dhungalla. Dhungalla is the dreaming or creation story, according to Yorta Yorta elder, Sharon Atkinson. ( Atkinson, 2013) This song is about your bathers turning brown, and your spirit turning shiny when you swim in Dhungalla.”

Lisa also announced her new album A Place To Fall Apart along with the accompanying Album Launch Tour. The album is produced by Tom Iansek (Big Scary / #1Dads) and features the new single “I Believe In Kindness” and “Zombie.”