Arlo Parks returns with new song ‘2SIDED’ and details of album ‘Ambiguous Desire’
“This record has desire at its center,” Parks says of her third album, which arrives in April
Arlo Parks has returned with new single ‘2SIDED’ and details of her third studio album.
The new record, titled Ambiguous Desire, will be released on April 3 via Transgressive. It follows 2023’s My Soft Machine.
Inspired by nightlife, it was made alongside producer Baird, who has most notably worked with Brockhampton.
Discussing the creation of the record, Parks said: “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.
“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.”
Watch the video for ‘2SIDED’ below.
Of the new single, Parks added: “At its core ‘2SIDED’ is about yearning and tension. It’s about being struck by a bolt of desire and building up the courage to put language to that feeling, to make it real.”
Around the album’s release date, Parks will play a series of intimate UK shows in association with local independent record stores.
See the dates below and pre-order Ambiguous Desire here.
APRIL 2026
2 – London, Rough Trade x fabric
4 – Leeds, Crash x Wardrobe
6 – Nottingham, Rough Trade x Rescue Rooms
8 – London, Banquet x Circuit
9 – Brighton, Resident x CHALK
11 – Oxford, Truck x O2 Academy
12 – Southampton, Vinilo x The 1865