Arlo Parks has hailed her Mercury Prize 2021 as a victory for independent music, as well as proof that “you don’t need a mad expensive studio to make cool music.”Parks won the coveted Prize last week, beating off competition from the likes of Ghetts, Mogwai, Celeste, Wolf Alice and BERWYN with her acclaimed 2021 album ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams‘ – released in January on Transgressive Records.When asked by NME what her triumph told us about music in 2021, Parks replied: “I guess representing the fact that independent music is as important as ever and is growing and growing with every year.
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