Arlo Parks | Soft Machine - Green Vinyl

TRANS700XX

26/05/23

Limited edition indies-only gatefold transparent green vinyl

Twice Grammy-nominated, Mercury Prize and BRIT Award-winning artist Arlo Parks returns 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 20s 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 visuals now. 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 semiautobiographical 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’.”

Tracklisting

Bruiseless
Impurities
Devotion
Blades
Purple Phase
Weightless
Pegasus ft. Phoebe Bridgers
Dog Rose
Puppy
I'm Sorry
Room (red wings)
Ghos