Arlo Parks talks to Apple Music about new single ‘Impurities’…
So, I worked a lot with Ramil. So, this song in particular, the Impurities were Carter Lang and Ramil. To be honest, I just picked them because I was a huge fan, and the first track on the record felt more spoken word. And this is the first “song” song on the record. And I wanted to feel like the door is opening, to feel that atmosphere. I think it started to celebrate the new community I found in LA and the people who made me who I am and who I am. And then I started thinking about the idea of someone completing you, someone taking over what you didn’t like and saving you somehow. And I think that double meaning was really interesting. I wanted it to feel like searching. I wanted it to feel like I was drifting in a way, but the lyrics are what grounds you. It was one of those songs that almost happened by accident as it was the day me and Roma first met and we spent most of the day hanging out. . And he just played that sample to me, and the lightning bolt just fell, so I recorded it. . Yeah, I think it’s almost an accidental song, but it feels like it’s channeling something. You are a vessel for this moment only. And I think I went back to that moment and really started to understand what I was writing about. It was like I needed it.
Arlo Parks talks to Apple Music about new album ‘My Soft Machine’
Honestly, when the record is done, it clears a space in my mind and that’s the gift I give. Then there is space, a complete blank slate, and the record feels like it was made in this. It’s a very limited time period and nothing else fits. This was the only snapshot. I don’t think I made this record on purpose. It’s like I don’t understand I subconsciously took notes about my growth, how I felt about what was around me, the world, how it changed, and made music that really felt good. I just wanted that feeling. …many records are about feeling deeply and surrendering to that feeling, or closing down and hiding behind a wall. As for the instrumentation, I also think there are moments when it’s a little more abrasive and vibrant, and there are moments when it’s softer and more hypnotizing.
Arlo Parks Tells Apple Music How Finding an Audience Influenced Her Craft…
I feel that the process of making music will always be very isolating. I like to feel like a teenager in her bedroom all the time. I like to feel like I’m separate from the world, and at least for now I can make this little one my own. And I think the record encouraged me to be more radical and inward than talking about other people and people. It was more me and self.
Arlo Parks talks to Apple Music about finding a positive sense of community in Los Angeles…
I think maybe I came here completely open. I didn’t really have that many pre-existing concepts of what it would be like. I also wanted to make records and had the same thing as me, these people who are creative and love music. And that community has grown to include all kinds of creative people. I don’t know, but I think I found it. feels like home. I think the feeling of this city enveloped me. I wanted a new adventure. I’ve met good people and made records that I love, and I’ll always miss LA.
Arlo Parks talks Apple Music about learning patience…
I think it took me some time to learn patience. Especially when it comes to writing, I want to be perfect now. I think there was a real sense of desperately searching for the perfect way to say something, the perfect phrasing, the perfect chord. But I actually found evidence in this writing process that the best things happen when you actually leave things alone and allow them to take their time.
Arlo Parks looks back on his acclaimed debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams…
I think that is it. I don’t use the word perfect very often, but it felt like it represented where I was at the time, it felt honest, it felt like who I was then… It feels like it was light years ago. Honestly, it feels like a long time ago. From that time until now, I feel like I have lived a lot of lives.