Collapsed In Sunbeams Arlo Parks

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Album-Release:
2021

HRA-Release:
21.05.2024

Label: Transgressive

Genre: R&B

Subgenre: Soul

Artist: Arlo Parks

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  • 1 Collapsed In Sunbeams 00:55
  • 2 Hurt 03:36
  • 3 Too Good 03:41
  • 4 Hope 04:30
  • 5 Caroline 03:37
  • 6 Black Dog 03:49
  • 7 Green Eyes 03:18
  • 8 Just Go 03:06
  • 9 For Violet 03:33
  • 10 Eugene 03:43
  • 11 Bluish 03:14
  • 12 Portra 400 02:56
  • Total Runtime 39:58

Info for Collapsed In Sunbeams

Der Neo-R'n'B-Shooting-Star Arlo Parks, die 2018 mit ihrem Song "Cola" erstmals für Furore sorgte, verbindet momentan wie kaum eine Zweite moderne Indie-Pop-Melodien mit authentisch-gefühlvoller und tiefdringender Lyrik, vorgetragen von einer weichen Soprano-Stimme. Die Britin thematisiert Mental Health Themen ebenso wie queere Sexualität. Aus spezifischen Momenten und Erlebnissen schafft sie auf einzigartige Weise universelle Songs, mit denen sich Menschen aller Altersgruppen identifizieren können. Michelle Obama, Phoebe Bridgers, Florence Welch und Billie Eilish sind bereits Fans der erst 20-jährigen Londonerin. Die letzteren beiden sind gemeinsam mit Arlo Parks Teil der aktuellen Gucci-Kampagne. Mit Dior und der Vogue hat die britische Songwriterin ebenso kooperiert und auch musikalisch stehen potenzielle Kooperationspartner Schlange vor der Tür dieser faszinierend empathischen jungen Musikerin. Obwohl Arlo Parks mit den bisher veröffentlichten Songs bereits eine beachtliche Anzahl an Erfolgen vorweisen kann, trieb sie akribisch das Ziel vor sich her, ein Album zu schreiben, das im Gedächtnis bleibt. Dieses Ziel hat sie zweifellos mit "Collapsed In Sunbeams" erreicht.

"Jeder Song ist bis zum Bersten mit Emotionen gefüllt.​ (.​.​.​) Gesungen werden sie von einer Frau, die eine Stimme wie ein Engel hat.​ Man darf nicht nur deswegen sehr gespannt sein, was in Zukunft alles kommen wird .​.​.​" (Stereo)

Arlo Parks




Arlo Parks
On a personal level, Parks struggled with her identity growing up; a self-confessed tom boy who was super sensitive and "uncool", she says it was like "I'm a black kid who can't dance for shit, listens to emo music and currently has a crush on some girl in my Spanish class." By the time she reached 17, she shaved her head, figured out she was bisexual and produced/wrote an album's worth of material.

Growing up in South West London, half Nigerian, a quarter Chadian and a quarter French, Arlo Parks learned to speak French before English. A quiet child, she'd write short stories and create fantasy worlds, later journalling and then obsessing over spoken word poetry, reading American poets such as Ginsberg and Jim Morrison and watching old Chet Baker performances on YouTube. These days she references Nayyirah Waheed, Hanif Abdurraqib and Iain S. Thomas as her favourite modern poets, and it is clear that their works are as influential on her songwriting as any musician. Books too, such as The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. Parks says, "the way Murakami writes in that book is how I aspire to write my songs; gritty and sensitive and human."

Fela Kuti's 'Water' and Otis Redding's 'Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay' soundtracked Arlo Parks' childhood, but it was aged around 13 that she discovered King Krule; an artist who would heavily influence the music she writes today. Later listening to more hip-hop (from Kendrick Lamar and Earl Sweatshirt to the more confessional sounds of Loyle Carner) and rock (Jimi Hendrix, Shilpa Ray and David Bowie), as well as the subdued, pained sounds of Keaton Henson, Sufjan Stevens and Julien Baker, Parks explains, "I would write stories so detailed you could taste them, while maintaining the energy and life of the hip-hop I loved." There's a visual, almost cinematic quality to her writing too, which is born from her love of horror films, streetwear and abstract art.



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