by Roy Scopazzi
Arlo Parks has the label of “Bedroom Pop” attached to her, and while microgenres can be extremely silly, this felt extremely accurate at her show at the Regency Ballroom. A relaxed but not boring atmosphere created as she works her way through most of her latest album and a sizeable chunk of her previous two. It’s not enough to put you to sleep as the name implies, but enough to get you comfortable. She dances nearly all the time whether she’s singing or not and the low lights turn her into a kind of specter that glides across the stage, only standing still in the light for a single song. I’m very sad that this show was moved from the Warfield to the Regency because she’s easily one of the most underrated artists from this flock of new Pop R&B singers and this show proves it.
BAIRD‘s set to open up the night was as dreamy as Arlo herself, mixing soul and pop while a mobile of birds hang over him and his drummer (all of their releases so far have been called BIRDSONGS)
