Fallow (Fanny Lumsden album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Fallow
| type = studio
| artist = Fanny Lumsden
| cover = Fallow_by_Fanny_Lumsden.png
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| released = {{start date|df=y|2020|03|13}}{{cite web|url=https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/cd-lumsden-fanny-fallow-cd|title=Fanny Lumsden Fallow |website=JB HiFi|access-date=3 February 2021}}
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| length = 40:15
| label = Cooking Vinyl Australia
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| prev_title = Real Class Act
| prev_year = 2017
| next_title = Hey Dawn
| next_year = 2023
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Fallow is the third studio album by Australian country music singer, Fanny Lumsden. It was released in March 2020 and peaked at number 10 on the ARIA Charts.
At the ARIA Music Awards of 2020, the album won the ARIA Award for Best Country Album.{{cite news | url = https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/awards/arias/aria-awards-2020-all-the-best-moments/live-coverage/183f208074b66a6b2fcd9724566c6bdf | title = ARIA Awards 2020: All the best moments as they happen | last = Bond | first = Nick | work = news.com.au | date = 25 November 2020 | access-date = 25 November 2020 }}
At the AIR Awards of 2021, the album won Best Independent Country Album or EP.{{cite web |title=2021 AIR Awards Winners |url=https://scenestr.com.au/music/2021-air-awards-winners-20210805 |website=Scenstr.com.au |access-date=6 August 2021}}
Background and recording
Lumsden said, "I went into the record to make songs that were also a little more hopeful, because I'd talked about drought for so long and everyone in the music industry and my family are still going through it. It's not that I didn't want to acknowledge it, I just knew that the people going through it didn't want reminding. They know and they want an escape. I wanted to write about green grass, running water, mountains and sunsets. I was experiencing those things and it was giving me such joy. I wanted that glorious buzz in my songs."{{cite web|url= https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/fanny-lumsden-my-most-hated-thing-is-people-saying-it-s-just-not-done-that-way-20200325-p54dp2.html |title = Fanny Lumsden: My most hated thing is people saying ‘It’s just not done that way’ |website=Sydney Morning Herald|date= 18 March 2020|access-date= 8 August 2023|first= Craig|last= Mathieson}}
Reception
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| rev1 = The Music
|rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |first= Liz |last= LGiuffre |url= https://themusic.com.au/reviews/fanny-lumsden-fallow-liz-giuffre/D60LAwIFBAc/10-03-20 |title= Album Review: Fanny Lumsden - Fallow|website=The Music |date=10 March 2020 |access-date=8 August 2023 }}
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Liz Giuffre from The Music said "Fanny Lumsden's work covers the best of contemporary country music – acoustic story bases that reward close listening to the lyric sheets. It's rude to give away too much in a review, but let's just say she has a gift for matching the familiar with the unexpected in a chorus."
Track listing
- All songs written by Edwina Lumsden
- "Mountain Song" - 1:56
- "This Too Shall Pass" - 3:20
- "Peed in the Pool" - 3:41
- "Grown Ups" - 3:27
- "Fierce" - 2:38
- "Tidy Town" - 4:26
- "Fallow" - 4:39
- "Wishing" - 2:34
- "These Days" - 3:44
- "Dig" - 3:24
- "Black and White" - 3:57
- "Mountain Song" (Reprise) - 2:29
Charts
=Weekly chart=
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| scope="col"| Chart (2020)
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| {{album chart|Australia|10|artist=Fanny Lumsden|album=Fallow|rowheader=true|accessdate=3 February 2021}} |
=Year-end chart=
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|+ Year-end chart performance for Fallow ! scope="col"|Chart (2020) ! scope="col"|Position |
| scope="row"| Australian Country Albums (ARIA){{cite web|url=https://www.aria.com.au/charts/2020/country-albums-chart|title=ARIA Top 100 Country Albums for 2020|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association|access-date=7 August 2023}}
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