Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine - CASSETTES

This is the band's upcoming album, they're going back to their roots in maybe their heaviest yet. Features include Louie Knuxx, Phem, Landon Tewers (The Plot In You) and Andrew Neufeld (Comeback Kid).

2021 . Twenty-year-old, London-based musician and poet Arlo Parks, has been very steadily climbing the ranks as an artist to watch since the of her confessional debut single InchColaInch in 2018. Arlo has received praise from artists such as Billie Eilish, Wyclef Jean, Clairo, Florence Welsh and Phoebe Bridgers during the past year while growing her fan base exponentially. Arlo's debut album Inchis a series of vignettes and intimate portraits surrounding my adolescence and the people that shaped it. It is rooted in storytelling and nostalgia - I want it to feel both universal and hyper specific.Inch On a personal level, Parks struggled with her identity growing up; a self- confessed tom-boy who was super sensitive and Inchuncool,Inch she says it was like InchI'm a black kid who can't dance for S**t, listens to emo music and currently has a crush on some girl in my Spanish class.Inch By the time she reached 17, she shaved her head, figured out she was bisexual and produced/wrote an album's worth of material.

Twice Grammy-nominated, Mercury Prize and BRIT Award-winning artist Arlo Parks announces her new album, Ambiguous Desire, due April 3rd via Transgressive Records. Ambiguous Desire is Parks at her most confident and experimental, supplanting live band sessions for modular synths, Ableton plugins and samplers that channel the frenetic, vibrant spaces she was immersed in, all while spotlighting the acclaimed poetry and lyricism she's beloved for. Reflecting on the making of the record, Parks shares, InchI danced more than ever as I made this record, I made more friends than ever too, found myself in the weird underbelly of New York juke nights, unleashed, laughed and laughed and laughed. This record has desire at it's centre. Desire is a life force, it's a wanting, a yearning, a momentum - we are all alive because there is something or someone we want - desire is an engine. But it is also mysterious, tangled, random, enlightening and HUMAN.Inch Parks crafted the album with producer Baird (Brockhampton, Kevin Abstract). Their process unfolded between NYC's vibrant, community-rooted nightlife and long, introspective days spent in Baird's downtown loft. The result is Parks' most vulnerable, self-affirming, and euphoric work to date. 4pp digisleeve, Reverse board with spot gloss to the front, 8 page poster and 2 page insert.