The 20-year-old Londoner brings sensitivity and grace to tough topics throughout
Collapsed In Sunbeams, this week’s Feature Album. She treats mental health, queerness, depression, sexual identity and self-acceptance with care, her breathy voice expressing them with the softness and consideration such subjects deserve.
Her songs are intimate, sincere, and suffused in warmth – capturing the English summer that backdrops her stories. Crafting lush, mellow moods around poetic lyricism, her music is unhurried yet hooky, threading together neo-soul, RnB, jazz and trip hop into a sound that separates Arlo from current pop trends but is no less radio-friendly or engaging.
‘Just know it won’t hurt so much forever’ she consoles over shuffling breakbeats and subdued brass on ‘Hurt’.