Arlo Parks

landscape that I think really connects to the dreaminess of the record and of the music.

But I think I was always attracted to either album covers that felt like they really grated against the content and there was a friction there, or that felt like they spoke to each other really naturally.

I think it was one or the other.

And how is that so?

Exactly.

And it also makes me think of Bjork for some reason on all her different album covers and the way that, you know, the light and the fabric interact and how... I mean, I remember listening to something that she had called Sonic Symbolism, which was kind of about...

the symbolism of the clothes and the artwork and how that related to the music in each era.

And she was talking about her album Post and, you know, being immersed in trip hop and Bristol and Glasgow and being in the city and the lights and the color and what she was wearing.

And there is this kind of

sense of it being almost this flair so much life and color in it so i i think of her as well in the way that what she wears kind of feels like it links to the soundtrack of the music and as she changes and her artistry changes it's really interesting yeah

Oh, that's interesting.

I think I've always been that way.

I think there's always been a desire to kind of nurture and save in my personality.

I think I often have also found that role in groups of friends or in relationships in general, I think being the one that maybe is a little bit more

kind of calm and grounded and stoic and is able to kind of be a rock or an anchor in those more turbulent times.

But I do think, you know, on the inside, we all have that inner child that is, you know, that does kind of act out and come out in moments.

But I do think a lot of my songs are about, you know, observing friends or lovers or people who are moving through these things.

Because when I am actually living that, there is a helplessness or there's an inability to put it anywhere other than in the song because it's not about me, you know?

So I think it comes out in journaling and in poetry, especially in those situations where I feel kind of frozen and where the focus is on taking care of this person who is struggling.

Yeah.