Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorArlo Parks is the kind of artist who almost could have been created in a test tube for a certain type of music fan.
A 20-year-old singer-songwriter raised in London to Nigerian/Chadian-French parents (her real name is Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho).
Songs with personal yet universal lyrics culled from journals, steeped in R&B and alt-rock but anchored in singer-songwriter tradition.
Cosigns from admiring contemporaries like Billie Eilish, Phoebe Bridgers (with whom Parks played a show in London last fall), Clairo (who sings on the album) and even Michelle Obama (who put one of her songs on a playlist last summer).
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