Arlo Parks Announces New Album, Shares New Single And Video, 'Weightless'

Grammy nominated, Mercury Prize winning artist Arlo Parks has today announced the release of her sophomore album My Soft Machine. 

The album is set to land on Friday the 26th of May. 

Alongside the news she's shared the albums first single Weightless a warm cinematic offering which once again showcases her amazing songwriting skills. The track features a driving percussion section as Parks reflects on unrequited care and misbalance in relationships and the internal healing process that occurs in the rebuilding phase of personal confidence. 

On the single, Parks states, "Weightless' surrounds the painful experience of caring deeply about someone who only gives you tiny breadcrumbs of affection. It’s about suddenly realising that a person has dulled your edges and embarking on the slow journey back to being a brighter version of yourself.”

My Soft Machine follows Parks' critically acclaimed award winning debut record Collapsed In Sunbeams, which received two Grammy nominations, won the BRIT Award for Best New Artist and received the prestigious Hyundai Mercury Prize.

Her latest effort is set to be a deeply personal body of work that reflects on Parks' experience as she navigates her 20s and the rapid growth that surrounds this era of life. 

“The world/our view of it is peppered by the biggest things we experience - our traumas, upbringing, vulnerabilities almost like visual snow," she states. 

"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.

The title is inspired by a Joanna Hogg film titled The Souvenier which recounts Tilda Swinton falling in love with an older, charismatic man as a young film student and 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.”

You can pre-save the record HERE.