Arlo 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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