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Arlo parks amazon9/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by a wide range of artists, Parks brings a holistic approach to her music, each of her influences representing a different part of her work. Each song is unflinchingly honest and raw, what Parks describes as “an exercise in soul bearing,” while still connecting to the work as a whole. From the gentle spoken word poem on the record’s opening “Collapsed in Sunbeams” to the captivatingly rhythmic “Hope” and touching “Black Dog,” a throughline of vulnerability and reflection runs through every track on the record. “It’s almost like the songs are flowing out of me somehow, like the songs are being written through me,” she says.Īnd flow is indeed one of the defining factors of Parks’ debut, Collapsed In Sunbeams. Coalescing her love for music and words happened naturally-she’d rummage through old notebooks to inspire melodies-but lately, the music has been coming before the words do. The singer-songwriter plays piano, electric guitar, and taught herself to use recording and production software GarageBand around the time she discovered artists like King Krule, Elliott Smith, and the Pixies. ![]() Parks’ self-driven attitude around reading also translated into her relationship with music. But Parks adds to her repertoire at a rate that rivals an English class curriculum-Dostoevsky, Audre Lorde, Nabokov, and Joan Didion are just a few of the authors she’s read in the last year. And then there are, of course, the books: She cites Plath’s The Bell Jar and Murakami’s Norwegian Wood as two of her most enduring influences. Beat poets Diane de Prima and Gary Snyder scored her early years, while modern writers like Nayyirah Waheed and Hanif Abdurraqib continue to inspire her today. Seven years later, writing has become fundamental in shaping Park’s growth. From there, “I kind of became obsessed with finding new writers,” she tells us. An attentive teacher at school noticed her interest and gifted her Ariel, a poetry collection by Sylvia Plath. South London artist Arlo Parks (born Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho) first stumbled into poetry when she was 13 years old. ![]()
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