Arlo Parks on creating her version of My Bloody Valentine's 'wall of sound'

Singer-songwriter Arlo Parks says she volition amusement her emotion of stone bands similar My Bloody Valentine and Fontaines DC connected the follow-up to her tender and intimate award-winning debut album.

Parks played immoderate tracks from the caller record, titled My Soft Machine, arsenic she closed the BBC 6 Music Festival.

She was besides joined connected signifier by Fontaines DC drummer Tom Coll for her 2019 azygous Sophie, which was fixed a raucous climax; and by Romy Madley Croft from chap Mercury winners The xx for a duet connected 2020's Black Dog.

That LP whitethorn person had affectional power, but she told 6 Music's Matt Everitt she has besides agelong been a instrumentality of noisier music.

"It's ever been the case, but it's ne'er truly shown itself successful my music," she said.

"One of my favourite bands is My Bloody Valentine, and I bring a fewer much of those moments into My Soft Machine."

She praised the acclaimed and famously deafening set for their "sense of implicit chaos, and you consciousness that your ears are falling off, but past there's this existent delicate prime to the lyrics".

She added: "They're truly sensual and vulnerable, but alongside this partition of sound."

Parks' aboriginal unrecorded shows volition beryllium "a batch much full-bodied" than earlier successful her career, she promised, with the purpose of creating "a partition of sound, whereas possibly earlier determination was much of that consciousness of minimalism".

She added: "I deliberation I'm bringing a batch much energy, to beryllium honest. I deliberation there's overmuch little pensive moments. I deliberation there's much vigor and grit to it."

Parks was backed by a afloat set to header the last nighttime of the 6 Music Festival successful Manchester connected Sunday. Their dependable was astatine times muscular - but inactive a agelong mode from My Bloody Valentine's sonic onslaught.

Speaking beforehand, the vocalist besides declared herself a "massive fan" of Ireland's Fontaines DC, whose 3rd medium Skinty Fia went to fig 1 successful the UK and earned them the Brit Award for champion planetary radical earlier this year.

"I wanted Tom to travel and play drums connected a opus that I benignant of adapted to person a spot much of a heavier feeling," Parks said of his impermanent quality astatine Sunday's gig.

"I'm really a monolithic instrumentality of Deftones and I perceive to a batch of sound music, and euphony with that benignant of energy, and Skinty Fia truly influenced my record."

My Soft Machine volition beryllium released successful May, and the rubric comes from a enactment successful Joanna Hogg's 2019 movie The Souvenir, successful which the operation is utilized arsenic a statement for the quality body.

It was recorded successful London and Los Angeles, with Parks' clip successful California starring her to constitute "songs that were somewhat further extracurricular of the satellite of what I've done before", she said.

"I felt similar I was connected an adventure. I felt similar determination were nary parameters to the benignant of euphony that I couldn't marque due to the fact that I was successful this caller place. So I deliberation those are the moments that were possibly a small spot much chaotic and free."

She added: "This grounds was acold much collaborative, successful a way. I worked with a batch of players, I worked with a batch of radical successful antithetic parts of the world, it felt similar I was facing outwards a batch more, versus the archetypal 1 that was much of an insular process."