

On Parks’ long-awaited debut album Collapsed in Sunbeams, her narratives remain vivid and often crushing. The 19-year-old British musician, born Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho, has said that she writes her songs “to feel both universal and hyper-specific.” The high-profile fans-Phoebe Bridgers, Billie Eilish, Michelle Obama-whom Parks has accrued since her 2018 emergence certainly attest to her music’s broad relatability, and her music itself displays her talent for intimate, you-had-to-be-there details and unyielding, wise-beyond-her-years empathy. Arlo Parks: Collapsed in SunbeamsĪrlo Parks has already accomplished one of her biggest goals. garage and electronica to absurd post-punk and spiky art-rock, here are 10 of our favorite albums from January 2021, as curated by the Paste music team. This January, we’ve enjoyed a few albums from our list of most anticipated albums in 2021-Shame, Arlo Parks, Madlib and Cheekface-plus new LPs from Sleaford Mods, Midnight Sister, Pom Poko and more. The first month of the year is just about under our belts, which means we have a month’s worth of albums to mull over.
