Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho, known professionally as Arlo Parks, is an English singer and songwriter. Her debut studio album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, was released in 2021 to critical acclaim and peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart. It earned her nominations for Album of the Year, Best New Artist and Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2021 Brit Awards.
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"I would say my favorite song probably digital birth. I think the drums on there and the warmth and how relentless the instruments are but then how smoothing Chino's voice is and that marriage is something that's always really moved me."Watch this moment
"I'm a massive fan of Dean Blunt and babyfather and all the other aliases. There's this particular song on here called The Rot that I think my friend showed me when we were going on a really really long drive, and I found his access to vulnerability and the kind of monotone quality of his voice really moving."Watch this moment
"This record represents freedom and adventure and queer joy and queer euphoria. What I love about Sophie is that she was just so completely herself; she was so individual and brought so many people together."Watch this moment
"There's this song in particular called Nabokan de Soul which again it just makes me feel happy. I feel like sometimes you have to pick records that just pull that emotion out of you so simply and every time I listen to that or Sylvia I just feel completely moved and it reminds me of sunshine and happiness."Watch this moment
"Avenue and Let Us Dance have this almost childlike sense of innocence that just makes me feel like I'm running through the prairies or somewhere out in the countryside."Watch this moment
"Who Sees You I think is my favorite track from this record. I've been listening to it almost every day and it's that combination of real chaos and intensity and it feels like this wave of sound just crashing onto you relentlessly but then with Belinda's vocals she feels like she's floating above the chaos and there's something kind of comforting about that."Watch this moment
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