Arlo Parks’ silky blend of bedroom pop, indie folk and soul makes sad truths easier to swallow. The London singer/songwriter/producer crafts her melancholic confessions like a poet—succinctly dissecting emotion with exquisite detail. Parks quickly cemented her role as a powerful post-millennial voice with her 2019 debut EP Super Sad Generation and its evocative downtempo title track. The British bard remembered the muses that inspired her—like MF DOOM on jazzy reverie “george”, My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way on lo-fi gem “Cola”, and The Cure’s Robert Smith on “Black Dog”, a moving meditation on mental health.