British singer Arlo Parks found herself in front of a packed Beanfield Theatre (formerly Corona) last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Montreal is discovering Arlo Parks on stage. 23 years old, fragile, sometimes melancholy, always touching, festive, and rocking when\u2014at the end of the show\u2014she hangs her guitar around her neck and jams with contagious pleasure with the excellent trio that accompanies her, carried by the precise, irresistible groove of her rhythm section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When she performs “Cola,” the song that revealed her in 2018, the Beanfield becomes a choir and intones: I loved you to death and now I don’t really care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parks grew up in London, but her Nigerian and Chadian roots also cut a deep furrow on the French side, her mother being a Parisian. The richness of her origins and influences explains the depth of her creation. Some might try to classify her as indie-pop or neo-soul, but her palette is much broader; she discovered King Krule at the age of 13 and is inspired by Hendrix, Bowie, and Sufjan Stevens. In the course of the show, she gives a passing salute to Radiohead – the filiation is obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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