“It’s one more step towards the big day,” Arlo Parks brightly hums on the other end of the phone call. It’s late morning in Los Angeles and the 22-year-old is winding down from her journey in a yellow flower-flush Californian desert. The musician had been busy filming visuals for Pegasus; a gentle, fuzzing ode to love and loving deeply, which recruits the support of close friend Phoebe Bridgers. However, the pressures of the musician’s upcoming full-length project, My Soft Machine, seem inconsequential to what she found along the way. “The album gave me a space to put things,” says Parks. “It feels cosmic. I'm doing what I'm meant to do and that fills me with the biggest sense of purpose and joy.”
A sense of home is what persuaded Parks to move to LA. The bustling, busy entertainment melting point is a long way from Hammersmith, London where the British artist made her name. The bright-eyed notion of creative “adventure” proved a notable factor, too. Distance, however, would prove difficult to undo Parks’ ascension as a confidently established artist.
