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Arlo Parks is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Del Water Gap, Matilda Mann, Loyle Carner, King Krule and Frank Ocean. Those roots explain a lot about how Arlo Parks arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Charlotte Day Wilson, Jill Scott, James Blake, Tom Misch and Kelsey Lu, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Joesef, Sekou and Beyoncé, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 34 connections around Arlo Parks, reaching back through Del Water Gap and forward to Joesef. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho, known professionally as Arlo Parks, is an English singer and songwriter. Her debut studio album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, was released in 2021 to critical acclaim and peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart. It earned her nominations for Album of the Year, Best New Artist and Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2021 Brit Awards. It won the 2021 Mercury Prize for Best Album.
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Arlo Parks connections
Arlo Parks grew out of Del Water Gap, Matilda Mann, Loyle Carner and King Krule, shares an orbit with Charlotte Day Wilson, Jill Scott, James Blake and Tom Misch, went on to shape Joesef, Sekou and Beyoncé. 34 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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