The celebrated British singer Arlo Parks remains a seismograph of crisis with her second album »My Soft Machine«. The new album was produced by US pop specialists such as Ariel Rechtshaid (Haim) and Buddy Ross (Frank Ocean) It's a sound that seems more muscular and mature, but also cooler, that dares to experiment and beat, sometimes loudly grabs space with guitars like the nineties indie rock homage »Devotion« The majority of the new songs, however, are diary-like and flow along melancholic and slightly dazed.