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"Pegasus (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)" WATCH: https://youtu.be/SjvzQxGELlE LISTEN: https://arloparks.ffm.to/pegasus
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“Music that captures modern-day misery in a way that feels improbably heartening” New York Times
"A colossal talent" Vogue
"A good listener turned great storyteller” The New Yorker
"Parks achieves an emotional resonance that’s unflinchingly sincere" Rolling Stone
(May 10, 2023) - Twice Grammy-nominated, Mercury Prize and BRIT Award-winning artist Arlo Parks shares a new single from her forthcoming album My Soft Machine due May 26th via Transgressive Records. "Pegasus," made with close friend and collaborator Phoebe Bridgers is a delicate and beautiful ballad. Speaking about the song, Arlo shares, “'Pegasus' is about experiencing the warmth and lightness of good love for the first time. It also explores how the absence of chaos and the presence of real connection can be a little bit terrifying after a long time of not having it.”
The single release is accompanied by an official video, directed by Bedroom at Compulsory Film, who also directed the videos for her singles "Blades" and "Too Good." Arlo adds about the video, “The desert landscape has always had a special place in my heart, the scorched land, the dust, the sense of absence. Films like Gerry, My Own Private Idaho and Paris, Texas all use the desert as its own character representing isolation, nostalgia and the journey to a place outside of yourself. Bedroom did an incredible job of meshing surreal dreamscapes with real intimacy to make one of my favourite music videos I’ve ever made.”
"Pegasus (ft. Phoebe Bridgers)" follows recent tracks "Blades," "Weightless" and "Impurities." Arlo’s singles consistently feature across BBC Radio 1 and 6 Music’s A Lists concurrently, with recent highlights including a performance on The Jonathan Ross Show, plus cover features across The Guardian Film & Music, DORK, MusicWeek, DIY and Gay Times. She will perform on Later…With Jools Holland on May 20th on BBC Two.
My Soft Machine is a deeply personal body of work; a narration of Parks’ experiences as she navigates her 20’s. It was recorded between London and Los Angeles, with the producers Paul Epworth, Ariel Rechtshaid, Romil Hemnani (Brockhampton), Frank Ocean-collaborator Buddy Ross and Carter Lang (SZA) - as well as some self-production from Arlo herself.
Parks shares about how the new album and album title came to fruition in this beautiful performance video noting: "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 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... My Soft Machine."
My Soft Machine follows her highly-praised debut album Collapsed in Sunbeams, which received two Grammy nominations for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Album, won the BRIT Award for Best New Artist, received the Honda Mercury Prize, and won the BBC Introducing Artist Of The Year Award. Her debut album also reached the top 3 on the UK Album Charts and won the AIM Awards for Best Independent Album and UK Independent Breakthrough. On top of all this, Arlo was also nominated for Breakthrough International Act at the BET Awards. Arlo was named as the youngest ever high-profile supporter of UNICEF and an ambassador for UK mental health charity CALM. She has plans to continue her extensive work with both charities into 2023.
Along with the towering list of awards, Arlo's debut album was included on almost every 'Best Albums' list and received critical acclaim from the likes of The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The FADER and many more. Arlo performed singles from her debut album on Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, James Corden, CBS This Morning: Saturday, and Ellen DeGeneres in the US, spotlighting her in front of millions of viewers nationwide. She also appeared on Later...With Jools Holland and The Graham Norton Show in the UK and broke the record for most played artist on non-com radio,
Listen to "Pegasus (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)" above, check out Arlo's upcoming live dates below, and stay tuned for more music coming soon. | 
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