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Call me DeK. Something new every day (mostly bands); or something old; or something I miss; or something I obsess with, or something I don't know how to feel about.
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‘Weightless’ is the perfect word to describe Arlo Parks’ latest single. 

Wringing every last bittersweet drop from its gauzy, pulsing synths and brooding basslines, the British singer is fed up with being in a one-sided relationship as scenes of romantic chaos play out around her. 'I’m starved of your affection/You’re crushed under the pressure,’ she notes, but eventually finds herself admitting defeat. 

‘Weightless’ is from Arlo Parks’ upcoming second album, My Soft Machine, which has its roots in the cinematic. As she explains (via Stereogum): 

‘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.’ 

Arlo Paris’s My Soft Machine is out May 26. Read the review for her debut album Collapsed In Sunbeams here. 

- Bianca B. 

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Video directed by Marc Oller

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