Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine (Deluxe Edition) (2023) [Official Digital Download]

Twice Grammy-nominated, Mercury Prize and Brit Award-winning artist Arlo Parks is returning with her second album, My Soft Machine on Transgressive Records. My Soft Machine is a deeply personal body of work; a narration of Parks’ experiences as she navigates her 20’s and the growth intertwined. Explained ever-articulately in her own words below…

“The world/our view of it is peppered by the biggest things we experience - our traumas, upbringing, vulnerabilities almost like visual snow. This record is life through my lens, through my body - the mid 20s anxiety, the substance abuse of friends around me, the viscera of being in love for the first time, navigating PTSD and grief and self sabotage and joy, moving through worlds with wonder and sensitivity - what it’s like to be trapped in this particular body. There is a quote from a Joanna Hogg film called the Souvenir, it’s an A24 semi-autobiographical film with Tilda Swinton - it recounts a young film student falling in love with an older, charismatic man as a young film student then being drawn into his addiction - in an early scene he’s explaining why people watch films - “we don’t want to see life as it is played out we want to see life as it is experienced in this soft machine.” So there we have it, the record is called….My Soft Machine.” (Arlo Parks)

“‘Jasmine’ has always moved me deeply — to me it’s this shadowy, timeless and incredibly profound love song,” Parks says in a press release. “I really wanted to draw out the yearning of the lyrics and pay homage to an artist who has had a seismic impact on me and on culture. Receiving Jai Paul’s blessing to create this cover with Dave Okumu was one of the highlights of my creative journey so far.”

“Music that captures modern-day misery in a way that feels improbably heartening” - The New York Times

“I love Arlo” - Billie Eilish

“She's an incredible poet” - Phoebe Bridgers

Tracklist:
01. Bruiseless
02. Impurities
03. Devotion
04. Blades
05. Purple Phase
06. Weightless
07. Pegasus (ft. Phoebe Bridgers)
08. Dog Rose
09. Puppy
10. I'm Sorry
11. Room (red wings)
12. Ghost
13. Jasmine
14. I'm Sorry (ft. Lous and The Yakuza)
15. Blades (ft. redveil)
16. Devotion (Acoustic)
17. Pegasus (Acoustic)
18. Holding On


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