Arlo Parks: My Soft Machine – Moments of the wistful beauty that this singer does so well

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There is much softness to Arlo Parks’s second album, even if it is a touch too sweet in places

, from 2019, in which one character says, “We don’t want to see life as it is played out. We want to see life as it is experienced in this soft machine.”’s voice, which she uses to interesting effect, from the spoken word on Bruiseless to the guilelessness of her vocal on Ghost, with its squelchy beats providing an anchor as she sings, “I don’t want to be that friend that’s always in pain.”

It’s a song like this that serves Parks best, where duality and tension create a pleasing energy, whereas songs like Devotion and Pegasus, featuring Phoebe Bridgers , take the sweetness to more saccharine sands. There are various musical references that work well: the 1980s inflection on Blades, the trip hop of Puppy and the shoegaze of Dog Rose, with its lovely glassy guitars. Purple Phase has a mellow kind of grace, Weightless is stuttering beauty, and there is a hazy loveliness to Room . I’m Sorry is probably the best song on the record, with its gorgeous bass, so simple and affecting, revealing a wistful beauty that Parks does so well.

 

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