Arlo Parks live at the 2023 BBC 6 Music Festival (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
It’s the third track from Arlo Parks’ new album.
Arlo Parks has released Blades from My Soft Machine before the follow-up to 2021’s Mercury Prize-winning Collapsed In Sunbeams hits the shelves on May 26th.
About finding the courage to reconnect with an old friend, the song was recorded with producer Paul Epworth, whom Parks described as a ‘wizard’:
He has this childlike spirit that I’ve always really loved and he brought that to ‘Blades’. I wanted to make something that I can dance to, finally, because I feel like my songs don’t really have that quality in general. So, I took inspiration from bands like ESG, artists like Kaytranada, and a lot of the kind of 70s Zambian psychedelic rock that I love.
