| Fallow | ||||
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| Released | 13 March 2020 [1] | |||
| Length | 40:15 | |||
| Label | Cooking Vinyl Australia | |||
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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. [2]
At the AIR Awards of 2021, the album won Best Independent Country Album or EP. [3]
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." [4]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| The Music |   [5] |
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." [5]
| Chart (2020) | Peak position |
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| Australian Albums (ARIA) [6] | 10 |
| Chart (2020) | Rank |
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| Australian Country Albums (ARIA) [7] | 93 |
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