Arlo Parks has shared “Impurities,” a new song from her upcoming album My Soft Machine. Check it out below.
Heavy thumping bass anchors “Impurities,” but the song swirls with gentle synths as Arlo Parks sings about the joy of finding people who love you despite your faults — it’s like “radiating like a star,” as she puts it.
“This is a song about community,” Parks shared in a statement. “Being around people who make you feel like your inner ugliness and failures and mistakes don’t matter, who lift you up and make you laugh, who make you feel good and clean.” The song comes with a music video directed by Jak Payne, which Parks said conveys the “atmospheric oscillation between solitude and companionship.”
“I wanted to show how being around your people really does feel like coming home,” the artist shared. “When I was writing this song I had been thinking about Gus Van Sant a lot and how he captures people in all their fragility and beauty and ugliness — Jak was instrumental in creating/protecting that sense of softness.”
“Impurities” follows first single “Weightless” in previewing My Soft Machine, due out May 26th. Pre-orders for our former Artist of the Month‘s sophomore LP are ongoing.
Arlo Parks has a run of tour dates coming up across Australia, Asia, and Europe. See a full list of shows below, and grab tickets via Stubhub.
Arlo Parks 2023 Tour Dates:
03/26 — Manchester, UK @ BBC 6 Music Festival
07/05 — Tokyo, JP @ Ebisu Garden Hall
07/06 — Osaka, JP @ Umeda Club Quattro
07/08 — Seoul, KOR @ Musinsa Garage
07/17 — Melbourne, AU @ The Forum
07/18 — Melbourne, AU @ The Forum
07/20 — Adelaide, AU @ The Gov
07/22 — Byron, AU @ Splendour in the Grass
07/23 — Sydney, AU @ Sydney Opera House
07/25 — Perth, AU @ Astor Theatre
08/05 — Oxfordshire, UK @ Wilderness Festival
08/26 — Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
08/27 — Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
09/05 — Dublin, IE @ 3Olympia Theatre
09/14 — Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
09/15 — Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
09/17 — Berlin, DE @ Huxleys Neue Welt
09/19 — Milan, IT @ Alcatraz
09/21 — Paris, FR @ L’Olympia
09/28 — London, UK @ Eventim Apollo
