Arlo Parks has announced her new album ‘Ambiguous Desire’ with her nocturnal new single ‘2SIDED’.
The indie-folk musician will make a sonic pivot on her third studio album, set to be released on April 3 via Transgressive Records. Parks’ upcoming album will take inspiration from dance icons like Burial, The Streets and LCD Soundsystem, along with historic queer nightclubs like New York’s Paradise Garage.
“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,” Parks said of making the new album.
“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.”
Now, Parks has released the first taste of ‘Ambiguous Desire’ with the elegant ‘2SIDED’. Amidst grand, dark synths and gentle drum breaks, ‘2SIDED’ is an exploration of “yearning and tension”. Parks also described the song as “about being struck by a bolt of desire and building up the courage to put language to that feeling, to make it real.”
Listen to ‘2SIDED’ below:
To support her new album, Parks will play a string of intimate gigs across the UK – see all dates below and get your tickets here.
Arlo Parks’ 2026 tour dates are:
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2 – Rough Trade x fabric, London
4 – Crash x Wardrobe, Leeds
6 – Rough Trade Nottingham x Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
8 – Banquet x Circuit, London
9 – Resident x CHALK, Brighton
11 – Truck x O2 Academy, Oxford
12 – Vinilo x The 1865, Southampton
Arlo Parks’ record store tour will follow on from her ‘Sonic Exploration’ concerts that she played in London, New York and Los Angeles last year. Teasing the record at the time, Parks previewed snippets from a song called ‘New Desire’, writing: “I’ve been in the studio working on new music and this little idea was born out of a late night session with [producer and songwriter Baird]. D sent me a voicenote in May that made me feel like a teenager again – tender with new magic.”
Parks went on to add: “I wanted to put my heart on the line and write it how it FELT.”
‘Ambiguous Desire’ will serve as the follow-up to her sophomore album ‘My Soft Machine’, which NME gave a three-star review. “There’s ample to consider, decode and treasure from an artist who consistently makes poring over the lyric sheet line-by-line as much fun as the finished product”, we wrote at the time.
