Artist:
Parcels
Genre:
Pop/Rock
R&B
Indie Pop
Neo-Disco
Total Time:
45:47
Record Label:
Parcels Music
Purchase Album (click links):
CD, MP3, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
September 12, 2025
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Parcels
Genre:
Pop/Rock
R&B
Indie Pop
Neo-Disco
Total Time:
45:47
Record Label:
Parcels Music
Purchase Album (click links):
CD, MP3, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
September 12, 2025
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
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Product Description: The members of Parcels had barely graduated high school when they left Byron Bay, Australia for Berlin in 2014, five friends sharing a dream and a cramped one-bedroom apartment. Within a year, they had released their debut EP and signed a label deal; by 2017, they were collaborating with Daft Punk on the band’s single “Overnight,” a track that would become the dance icons’ final production.
After two albums—2018’s self-titled debut and 2021’s double LP Day/Night—and nearly a decade in motion, Parcels finally took a break in 2023. For six months, they lived their ordinary lives while working on songs individually before reconvening to finish them together. Whereas Day/Night was recorded in a single studio and meticulously planned out, their third album LOVED was made more loosely, with sessions in Berlin, Byron Bay, Sydney, and Mexico City, and a go-with-the-flow approach that let the album emerge on its own. “It's kind of like Parcels back to our most authentic self, in a way,” bassist Noah Hill told Apple Music’s Travis Mills in April 2025. “This one feels a lot more pure and direct, and more to what we naturally have inside of us.”
From opener “Tobeloved,” LOVED is dotted with moments of laughter and colorful ad-libs that drop listeners right in the booth with them. That joy permeates the production, a vintage blend of peppy keys, hand-claps, chest-swelling crescendos, and funky guitar riffs that beg for a little shimmy. They also bring tenderness: “Ifyoucall” offers unconditional love with the warmth of a long hug, and “Leaveyourlove” is a starry-eyed declaration of devotion. The latter, written in Mexico while watching the sun set over the ocean, became the album’s anchor point. “We were all writing our own individual verses about our own love stories at the time, and wanting to lean into that directness and not being afraid to talk about love so directly,” said Hill. “This track just clicked with all of us instantly.”
But LOVED also refers to the emotion in the past tense. The disco fizz of “Yougotmefeeling” sugarcoats the realization that a relationship is past saving, and the more delicate “Summerinlove” aches with post-breakup yearning. Other songs like “Safeandsound” and “Finallyover” embrace the unknowable future with optimism, while closer “Iwanttobeyourlightagain” circles back to where it all began: “I remember when we were green/Five people and two sets of keys/Trying so hard to be seen.”
After two albums—2018’s self-titled debut and 2021’s double LP Day/Night—and nearly a decade in motion, Parcels finally took a break in 2023. For six months, they lived their ordinary lives while working on songs individually before reconvening to finish them together. Whereas Day/Night was recorded in a single studio and meticulously planned out, their third album LOVED was made more loosely, with sessions in Berlin, Byron Bay, Sydney, and Mexico City, and a go-with-the-flow approach that let the album emerge on its own. “It's kind of like Parcels back to our most authentic self, in a way,” bassist Noah Hill told Apple Music’s Travis Mills in April 2025. “This one feels a lot more pure and direct, and more to what we naturally have inside of us.”
From opener “Tobeloved,” LOVED is dotted with moments of laughter and colorful ad-libs that drop listeners right in the booth with them. That joy permeates the production, a vintage blend of peppy keys, hand-claps, chest-swelling crescendos, and funky guitar riffs that beg for a little shimmy. They also bring tenderness: “Ifyoucall” offers unconditional love with the warmth of a long hug, and “Leaveyourlove” is a starry-eyed declaration of devotion. The latter, written in Mexico while watching the sun set over the ocean, became the album’s anchor point. “We were all writing our own individual verses about our own love stories at the time, and wanting to lean into that directness and not being afraid to talk about love so directly,” said Hill. “This track just clicked with all of us instantly.”
But LOVED also refers to the emotion in the past tense. The disco fizz of “Yougotmefeeling” sugarcoats the realization that a relationship is past saving, and the more delicate “Summerinlove” aches with post-breakup yearning. Other songs like “Safeandsound” and “Finallyover” embrace the unknowable future with optimism, while closer “Iwanttobeyourlightagain” circles back to where it all began: “I remember when we were green/Five people and two sets of keys/Trying so hard to be seen.”
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Tobeloved
(04:06)
2 . Ifyoucall (04:02)
3 . Safeandsound (04:36)
4 . Sorry (03:18)
5 . Yougotmefeeling (03:04)
6 . Leaves (03:41)
7 . Everybodyelse (03:39)
8 . Summerinlove (04:31)
9 . Leaveyourlove (03:52)
10 . Thinkaboutit (02:52)
11 . Finallyover (03:12)
12 .Iwanttobeyourlightagain (05:03)
2 . Ifyoucall (04:02)
3 . Safeandsound (04:36)
4 . Sorry (03:18)
5 . Yougotmefeeling (03:04)
6 . Leaves (03:41)
7 . Everybodyelse (03:39)
8 . Summerinlove (04:31)
9 . Leaveyourlove (03:52)
10 . Thinkaboutit (02:52)
11 . Finallyover (03:12)
12 .Iwanttobeyourlightagain (05:03)
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