This Friday, Arlo Parks will launch the much-anticipated follow-up to her Mercury Prize-winning debut Collapsed In Sunbeams. We’ve written about singles “Weightless,” “Impurities,” “Blades,” and “Pegasus,” which options Phoebe Bridgers. Now, Parks has yet another pre-release single to share: “Devotion.” The tune additionally comes accompanied by a video directed by Ali Raymond and Joel Barney.
“‘Devotion’ to me is a song about feeling so in love it’s almost like being ripped apart, there’s an intensity, a wildness and a tenderness,” Parks shares of “Devotion.” “This is one of my favourite songs I’ve ever made, it draws from the bands that made me fall in love with music from Deftones to Yo La Tengo to Smashing Pumpkins to My Bloody Valentine.”
About the tune’s video, Parks provides: “The music video for ‘Devotion’ had to feel sweaty and nostalgic and loose. The surreal bluish hue, the sense of feral joy in the performance, the blur and the band – I wanted to pay homage to 90s rock music and the notion of loving so hard it almost destroys you.”
Parks additionally spoke to Apple Music about “Devotion”:
It took no time in any respect to get there as a result of I used to be simply with my associates. I used to be with Romil [Hemnami] in mattress, and we simply made a little bit band for the day. And I’d at all times needed to make a tune like that, however I simply didn’t have the braveness. And each of them had been like, “Literally, why not?” And I used to be like, “You’re right, actually. There’s no reason why not.” And I truly noticed Deftones the night time I completed it with Paul at Kentish Town in entrance of a pair thousand individuals with Chino simply ripping it in his little denims. It was nice. And yeah, I believe these moments occurred so shortly and accidentally, nevertheless it felt so pure. There was such a way of organicness to the best way that each tune took place, actually, on this album.
Listen and watch under.
TOUR DATES:
05/24 – Kingston, UK @ Pryzm w/ Banquet Records (intimate outstore efficiency, early present – 5pm)
05/24 – Kingston, UK @ Pryzm w/ Banquet Records (intimate outstore efficiency)*
05/29 – London, UK – Rough Trade East, Early Show (in-store efficiency + signing)*
05/29 – London, UK – Rough Trade East, Late Show (in-store efficiency + signing)*
06/14 – Leeds, UK – The Wardrobe w/ Crash Records (intimate outstore efficiency)*
06/14 – Leeds, UK – The Wardrobe w/ Crash Records (intimate outstore efficiency, late present – 9pm)*
07/05 – Tokyo, Japan @ Ebisu Garden Hall*
07/06 – Osaka, Japan @ Umeda Club Quattro
07/08 – Seoul, South Korea @ Musinsa Garage
07/14 – New Plymouth, New Zealand @ Night Light Festival
07/17 – Melbourne, Australia @ Forum
07/20 – Sydney, Australia @ Sydney Opera House
07/22 – Byron Bay, Australia @ Splendour In The Grass
07/23 – Adelaide, Australia @ The Gov
07/25 – Perth, Australia @ Astor Theatre
08/05 – Oxfordshire, UK @ Wilderness Festival
08/26 – Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
08/27 – Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
09/05 – Dublin, Ireland @ 3Olympia Theatre
09/13 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
09/14 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso*
09/15 – Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne Belgique
09/17 – Berlin, Germany @ Huxleys Neue Welt*
09/19 – Milan, Italy @ Alcatraz
09/21 – Paris, France @ L’Olympia
09/28 – London, UK @ Eventim Apollo
10/01 – Washington, DC @ All Things Go Festival
*bought out
My Soft Machine is out 5/26 on Transgressive.