The 20-year-old Londoner brings sensitivity and grace to tough topics throughout
Collapsed In Sunbeams, this week’s Feature Album. She treats mental health, queerness, depression, sexual identity and self-acceptance with care, her breathy voice expressing them with the softness and consideration such subjects deserve.
Her songs are intimate, sincere, and suffused in warmth – capturing the English summer that backdrops her stories. Crafting lush, mellow moods around poetic lyricism, her music is unhurried yet hooky, threading together neo-soul, RnB, jazz and trip hop into a sound that separates Arlo from current pop trends but is no less radio-friendly or engaging.
‘Just know it won’t hurt so much forever’ she consoles over shuffling breakbeats and subdued brass on ‘Hurt’.
Kusama: Cosmic Nature, featuring her first ever participatory installation, intended to change with the seasons. Unfortunately, the show’s 2020 run was subsequently cancelled, as we watched spring, summer, and autumn pass by outside our windows during quarantine.
Now, in good news for art and selfie fans alike, the postponed show has a new opening date. The Bronx-based NYBG has announced that
Kusama: Cosmic Nature will open on April 10, 2021, with new considerations for coronavirus guidelines. Tickets, for example, will be limited, and staggered to prevent crowding in certain areas.
“Managing density within the garden has been a major consideration,” an NYBG spokesman tells