Almost by accident, Arlo Parks became one of the voices of a generation. Poetry written in her London bedroom, which unleashed the beauty of the detail that makes up everyday life, garnered her an army of fans addicted to her subtle delivery of gut-wrenching lyrics that can shatter a heart to pieces with the deftest of touches.  Now fully in control of her own self and unafraid to play with new sounds, her third album, 'Ambiguous Desire', is an unapologetically amorphous love letter to the people, places and nights out that brought her to this most joyous moment of her life.

It's 43 days until the release of 'Ambiguous Desire' when we share a Zoom call with Arlo, who's up early as the rain pours outside of her Los Angeles window. While she reassures us that she's excited for the album to be out, the understandably nerve-jangling prospect of these intimately personal tracks being available for the world to hear is still lingering in the background. "I've been telling everyone it's coming out in many months, but it's not at all," she grins. "There's this excitement about putting something that's been like so quietly mine for so many years into the world; I just didn't realise it was so soon." For Arlo Parks fans everywhere, of which there have been many ever since the release of 2021's Mercury Prize-winning debut 'Collapsed in Sunbeams', this new chapter can't come soon enough.

Three years since her second sensation 'My Soft Machine', Arlo's first tentative steps into this new, slightly unexpected arena were ushered in with club-pop banger '2SIDED' and trip-hop slow-burn 'Heaven', a track which she described on her socials as a risk. "I guess I was okay with the idea of it being something that challenged people and something that people had to take a second to adjust to, because some of my favourite records are ones that feel like they shake something loose about the expectations that you had for that artist's music." She continues: "But to be honest, everyone has accepted it with open arms; I've seen fans saying: 'I love it when an artist experiments and chooses new sounds like this'. Everyone has kind of embraced the fact that I've grown in this way, and that was really beautiful."