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Listen to Arlo Parks’ sunny new single, ‘Softly’
The juxtaposing track is the Mercury Prize winner’s first new music of 2022
Arlo Parks has released her first new music of 2022, a single titled ‘Softly’ – you can watch the song’s video below.
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The follow-up to the Mercury Prize winner’s critically acclaimed debut album, ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’, is a juxtaposing track that pairs an upbeat, sunny backdrop with tender lyrics about a relationship losing its fire.
“‘Softly’ is a song about yearning, about how fragile you feel in the dying days of a relationship when you’re still desperately in love,” Parks said of the new track. “The song is about how it feels to brace yourself before the blow of a break up and reminisce about the days where it all felt luminous.”
The track arrives alongside a warm, sparse, and surreal video, set to what looks like a busy US city before it unravels, directed by Zhang and Knight.
You can watch the video for ‘Softly’ below:
Speaking to NME in December 2021, Parks discussed the evolution of her songwriting.
“My sonic palettes and tastes have definitely expanded, and the kind of music that I want to make has changed,” she told NME.
“But I think internally, the way that I write my lyrics, the way that I put songs together, is still that very personal, intimate, intentional way of doing things.”
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