Arlo Parks “Heaven” New Single: Inside the Club-Inspired Third Album

We all know Arlo Parks for those sun-drenched, “poetry-in-a-bedroom” vibes. But her new single “Heaven” just flipped the script.

It’s not just a new track; it’s the first real taste of her third album, Ambiguous Desire, and it sounds exactly like what it is: the result of two years spent disappearing into the global underground club scene. This isn’t background music for a rainy Sunday—it’s music for when the walls are sweating and the sun is hours away.

From the K Bridge to Venue MOT

To understand why “Heaven” sounds so heavy and hypnotic, you have to look at where Arlo’s been hanging out. She hasn’t been in a quiet studio; she’s been losing her mind on dancefloors across three cities:

• Brooklyn: Catching the sub-bass under the K Bridge in Greenpoint.

• Los Angeles: Getting lost in the strobe lights at Midnight Lovers.

• London: Finding community and “new faces” at Venue MOT.

There’s a specific kind of anonymity you find in those dark, industrial spaces. Arlo leaned into that. She used the dancefloor as a place to shed her “Mercury Prize-winning artist” skin and just be another body in the crowd. You can hear that liberation in every beat of the new single.

A New Sonic Texture

If you’re expecting soft acoustic guitars, “Heaven” might give you a bit of a shock—in the best way possible.

The track is dark, enveloping, and visceral. It’s built on the kind of low-end frequencies that you feel in your chest rather than just hear in your ears. But because it’s Arlo, the lyricism is still sharp as a razor. She’s exploring “ambiguous desires”—those messy, complicated feelings that only seem to make sense when you’re half-blinded by a strobe light at 3:00 AM.

“I wanted to be in spaces where I could be whoever I wanted,” Arlo says.

That sense of “becoming” is the heartbeat of this new era. She’s emerging from the darkness of the club with the most confident sound of her career.

Why ‘Ambiguous Desire’ is the Album to Watch

We’ve seen artists “go electronic” before, but this feels different. It doesn’t feel like a pivot to pop; it feels like an artist finally finding the right environment for her words. Ambiguous Desire promises to be an album for the night owls and the seekers—those of us who find our clarity in the middle of the chaos.

“Heaven” is out now. Turn the lights off and the volume up.