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About Arlo Parks
With an alchemist’s touch, indie-pop singer-songwriter Arlo Parks transforms deep sadness into arresting beauty, proving to be a potent voice for Gen Z.
Born Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho in 2000, in Hammersmith, West London, Parks grew up obsessing over artists of all stripes, including Erykah Badu, Nick Drake, Radiohead, and King Krule (who inspired the “Arlo” in their alias). When they weren’t listening to music, they were soaking up the words of poets like Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg.
The artist stirs together all of these influences into a potent brew of spoken word, bedroom pop, indie folk, and alt-R&B that mirrors the fragility of life at any given moment. This was already evident on their 2018 debut single, “Cola,” a self-produced, self-recorded lo-fi seedling for what would blossom into the velvety, thoughtfully sculpted snapshots of their life that elegantly unfold across 2021’s Collapsed in Sunbeams and 2023’s My Soft Machine.
Parks reinvented their sound, though, on 2026’s Ambiguous Desire, with the dance floor in mind, while staying true to their lyrical ethos. As they told Apple Music, “I don’t feel bound by anything that I’ve made before. These stories are still just as true and rooted in poetry, but I think you can hear a freedom.”
Born Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho in 2000, in Hammersmith, West London, Parks grew up obsessing over artists of all stripes, including Erykah Badu, Nick Drake, Radiohead, and King Krule (who inspired the “Arlo” in their alias). When they weren’t listening to music, they were soaking up the words of poets like Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg.
The artist stirs together all of these influences into a potent brew of spoken word, bedroom pop, indie folk, and alt-R&B that mirrors the fragility of life at any given moment. This was already evident on their 2018 debut single, “Cola,” a self-produced, self-recorded lo-fi seedling for what would blossom into the velvety, thoughtfully sculpted snapshots of their life that elegantly unfold across 2021’s Collapsed in Sunbeams and 2023’s My Soft Machine.
Parks reinvented their sound, though, on 2026’s Ambiguous Desire, with the dance floor in mind, while staying true to their lyrical ethos. As they told Apple Music, “I don’t feel bound by anything that I’ve made before. These stories are still just as true and rooted in poetry, but I think you can hear a freedom.”
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