Watch Arlo Parks perform ‘Softly’ on ‘Colbert’
nme.comArlo Parks is the latest artist to perform on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, delivering an ethereal rendition of her recent single ‘Softly’.Flanked by a five-piece backing band, Parks sung the track remotely from an empty auditorium, slinking around the stage as she melted into the soulful indie-pop tune.
It was an impressively authentic recreation of it, with live saxophone and airy backing vocals adding even more colour to the original cut’s widescreen soundscape.Have a look at the performance below:Parks released ‘Softly’ as a single back in February.
At the time, she described it as “a song about yearning” and “how fragile you feel in the dying days of a relationship when you’re still desperately in love”.
She continued in her statement: “The song is about how it feels to brace yourself before the blow of a break up and reminisce about the days where it all felt luminous.”As well as her first new music for 2022, ‘Softly’ marked Parks’ first release since her Mercury Prize-winning debut album, ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’, landed in 2020.
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