4/15/2023 0 Comments Sara bareilles brave 60 seconds![]() ![]() Parks’ humming, the chorus, the bass, all contribute to this album’s strongest feature: its roll and flow. The album’s first full song is “Hurt,” an almost jazzy composition leaning on pop, soul and a straight-running bass line. Parks will set off, along the next 38 minutes, to help listeners make that peace, find something of a pacified compromise with ourselves. “Collapsed in sunbeams / Stretched out open to beauty however brief or violent,” opens Arlo Parks’ debut album, the British singer-songwriter serenely invoking the album’s title, “Collapsed in Sunbeams.” It’s something shy of a song, this 60-second opening track, rather a spoken-word poem backed by stereotypically tranquil guitar picking and ambient swoons.īut it’s clearly intended as a thesis: “We’re all learning to trust our bodies / Making peace with our own distortions / You shouldn’t be afraid to cry in front of me …” the track ends.
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