Arlo Parks-Collapsed In Sunbeams-CD-FLAC-2021-THEVOiD

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 Info   
     Artist  | Arlo Parks
     Title   | Collapsed In Sunbeams
     Genre   | Indie                                Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 39:57
     Label   | Transgressive Records                Store   | 2021
     Catalog | TRANS509CD                           Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 838 kbps                             Size    | 256.96 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Collapsed In Sunbeams                                       0:55
     02. Hurt                                                        3:36
     03. Too Good                                                    3:41
     04. Hope                                                        4:30
     05. Caroline                                                    3:36
     06. Black Dog                                                   3:48
     07. Green Eyes                                                  3:18
     08. Just Go                                                     3:06
     09. For Violet                                                  3:32
     10. Eugene                                                      3:43
     11. Bluish                                                      3:14
     12. Porta 400                                                   2:58
 Notes  
     The West London-raised musician/poet Arlo Parks pulls from a broad range of
     influences, including bedroom pop, jazz, and R&B. Born Anais Oluwatoyin
     Estelle Marinho in 2000, of Nigerian, French, and Chadian heritage, Parks
     debuted in 2018 with the single "Cola" The track ultimately appeared on
     April 2019's Beatnik-issued "Super Sad Generation" EP, a release that
     caught the attention of Transgressive, which signed her a months later,
     before she'd finished her A-Level exams.
     On the heels of the viral success of a handful of early songs, London
     singer/songwriter and poet Parks makes her full-length debut with
     "Collapsed In Sunbeams", a set that draws on episodes from adolescence.
     Sharing an empathic, personal approach that doesn't shy away from matters
     of heart or mental health issues, some of those songs - "Eugene", "Cola",
     and "Black Dog", for instance - are included on the 12-track album.
     Another characteristic that Parks' works have in common is an appealing
     blend of adult-alternative R&B, bedroom pop, and a borderline sophisti-pop
     that lands her sound in the general vicinity of, say, Sade or Jamila Woods
     without infringing on their space. Setting her material apart further still
     are her poetic leanings, and she opens "Collapsed In Sunbeams" with a
     nearly minute-long reading of the same name set to arpeggiated acoustic
     guitar and spacy keyboard tones. The poem's final line, 'You shouldn't be
     afraid to cry in front of me', sets the stage for the openhearted songs to
     follow, among them "Too Good".
     That tune's jazzy, syncopated guitar and staccato bass groove uplift
     regrets like 'Why'd we make the simplest things so hard'. Later, the
     optimistic "Hope" rides skittering drums and lite, improvisational piano
     chords alongside reassurances like 'You're not alone/Why you think you
     are?/We all have scars/I know it's hard'. The jealous "Eugene" is a duskier
     entry with a similarly elegant groove that scores Parks trying to comfort a
     friend after a breakup ('You know I like you like that').
     Her more poetic tendencies reveal themselves on tracks like the sultry
     "Green Eyes," which offers 'Dragonfruit and peaches in the wine/Kissin'
     circles underneath your eyes' amongst lyrics about a forbidden young love,
     and "Portra 400", a song named for a line of Kodak film that includes the
     phrase 'Making rainbows out of something painful'. If the musical qualities
     of "Collapsed In Sunbeams" suffer from a bit of sameyness by the end, the
     formula is a soothing, pleasant one with sentiment to spare and, as a
     debut, full of promise.

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