STELLA Donnelly's debut album Beware Of The Dogs is the equivalent of slapping someone in the face with a bag of cement wrapped in a bouquet of roses. The Perth singer-songwriter's indie-pop is all sweet and sugary, but the lyrical content is savage.
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Donnelly is a modern woman, and this is an album of our times. Misogyny is a common theme, most brutally expressed in the tragic Boys Will Be Boys about rap culture. Donnelly also explores chauvinism in the '80s inspired Old Man, while she turns her outrage to politics in the title track, with the killer line, "There’s no parliament worthy of this countryside/ All these pious f--ks taking from the ninety-nine."
Beware Of The Dogs is a sobering listen, but one you feel compelled to hear.
Josh Leeson
Josh Leeson is an entertainment and features journalist, specialising in music, at the Newcastle Herald. He first joined the masthead in 2008 after stints at the Namoi Valley Independent and Port Stephens Examiner and has previously covered sport including the Asian Cup, A-League, Surfest, cricket and rugby league.
Josh Leeson is an entertainment and features journalist, specialising in music, at the Newcastle Herald. He first joined the masthead in 2008 after stints at the Namoi Valley Independent and Port Stephens Examiner and has previously covered sport including the Asian Cup, A-League, Surfest, cricket and rugby league.
