Arlo Parks has released her new album Ambiguous Desire, out now via Transgressive Records.
The 12-track project marks a more vulnerable and dancefloor-driven chapter for the twice Grammy-nominated, Mercury Prize and BRIT Award-winning artist. Created primarily with producer Baird, the album also features additional production from Paul Epworth, Buddy Ross and Andrew Sarlo, alongside a guest appearance from Sampha.
Inspired by late-night club spaces across Los Angeles, New York and London, Ambiguous Desire draws from house, UK electronic music and synth-led indie influences while keeping Parks’ lyricism and emotional clarity at the centre. The album includes the previously released singles “Get Go”, “Heaven”, “2SIDED” and recent focus track “Beams”.
Speaking on the record, Arlo Parks explained: “I danced more than ever as I made this record, I made more friends than ever too, found myself in the weird underbelly of New York juke nights, unleashed, laughed and laughed and laughed. This record has desire at its center. Desire is a life force, it’s a wanting, a yearning, a momentum – we are all alive because there is something or someone we want – desire is an engine. But it is also mysterious, tangled, random, enlightening and HUMAN.”
Listen to Ambiguous Desire below.