Arlo Parks
n anticipation of a particularly heartbreaking experience, many of us take the time to mentally prepare. Well, compose yourself for Arlo Parks. This British singer-songwriter and poet’s tender voice drips with vulnerability, her lyrics a master class in storytelling. Her most recent track, “Softly,” is “about yearning,” she’s said, “about how fragile you feel in the dying days of a relationship when you’re still desperately in love. The song is about how it feels to brace yourself before the blow of a breakup and reminisce about the days where it all felt luminous.” It’s on the heels of her debut album, which garnered both critical acclaim and chart success in the United
