Carla dal Forno recorded her fourth album in a studio in a disused hospital in a remote Australian town of fewer than 8,000 people. Her last record, Come Around , documented her move there after years of traveling around the world’s music capitals as a moderately hyped post-punk musician. First, she was part of under-the-radar Australian bands like F ingers and Tarcar ; she went solo with the bewitching, tight-lipped You Know What It’s Like , an album whose air of distance was its most seductive quality. Over the years, the camera and the mic have inched closer to dal Forno, and we’ve gotten to know her songwriting quirks in petty breakup songs and self-aware tales of conditional, temporary love . Confession , made over years of settling into her Castlemaine home and the upside-down lifestyle change it brought, sounds cozy and pastoral at first. It’s the most upbeat she’s ever sounded—until you pay close attention to the lyrics.…