Grammy-nominated, Mercury Prize and BRIT Award-winning artist Arlo Parks has announced details of her forthcoming My Soft Machine UK & European tour, which begins with a show in Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre on 5th September 2023.

The news of the tour comes alongside the announcement of the upcoming release of her long awaited second album, My Soft Machine, due 26th May on Transgressive Records, and the album’s first single ‘Weightless’.

“Weightless surrounds the painful experience of caring deeply about someone who only gives you tiny breadcrumbs of affection. It’s about suddenly realising that a person has dulled your edges and embarking on the slow journey back to being a brighter version of yourself.”

The follow-up to her ‘Collapsed in Sunbeams’ features Phoebe Bridgers (Pegasus). The pair have appeared on-stage together several. Of the new 12-track collection Arlo Parks says.

“The world/our view of it is peppered by the biggest things we experience – our traumas, upbringing, vulnerabilities almost like visual snow. This record is life through my lens, through my body – the mid 20s anxiety, the substance abuse of friends around me, the viscera of being in love for the first time, navigating PTSD and grief and self sabotage and joy, moving through worlds with wonder and sensitivity – what it’s like to be trapped in this particular body.

There is a quote from a Joanna Hogg film called the Souvenir, it’s an A24 semi-autobiographical film with Tilda Swinton – it recounts a young film student falling in love with an older, charismatic man as a young film student then being drawn into his addiction – in an early scene he’s explaining why people watch films – “we don’t want to see life as it is played out we want to see life as it is experienced in this soft machine.” So there we have it, the record is called….My Soft Machine.”

My Soft Machine:
1.Bruiseless
2.Impurities
3.Devotion
4.Blades
5.Purple Phase
6.Weightless
7.Pegasus ft. Phoebe Bridgers
8.Dog Rose
9.Puppy
10.I’m Sorry
11.Room (red wings)
12.Ghost

My Soft Machine – coming 26th May – pre-order/save here

Arlo Parks in 3Olympia Theatre on 5th September 2023. Tickets from €29.95 including booking fees on sale Friday 3rd February at 10AM