“UK pop prodigy's second album provides plush armor against life's slings and arrows”
“My Soft Machine is a powerfully subtle return from Arlo Parks”
“The singer-songwriter’s second album is headier and more dynamic than her Mercury Prize-winning debut, but its sharp writing is often blunted by its temperate sound.”
“Arlo Parks inadvertently became the voice of mid-pandemic malaise. Her song ‘Black Dog’, released in May 2020, was a candid and devastating portrait of depression, her feather-light voice promising to “lick the grief right off your lips”. In early 2021, it would feature on ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’, the 22-year-old’s Mercury Prize-winning album, which NME called “a universal collection of stories th”
