Arlo Parks captures the essence of a listless generation who are simply “killing time and losing our patience” in her new song ‘Super Sad Generation’. The slow-moving jazz beat, lo-fi guitar and the soothingly off-kilter melody typifies that essential South London sound we associated with so many twenty-something musicians. Think Yellow Days, Nilüfer Yanya, Mom Tudie: whether they’ve originated from London or not, they certainly have found a community of like-minded individuals looking for meaning in a seemingly meaningless world. Arlo Parks speaks candidly about this reality: "When I look at my generation I see a kaleidoscope of dejection, passion and anxiety - there’s this strange mix of sadness and intimacy that saturates generation Z. Super Sad Generation was inspired by the time my friends and I sat on the green at sunset, half wine drunk and ugly crying for no reason in particular. We talked for hours about ghosts, disappointing our parents and depression. Everyone I loved seemed so angry and sick and aggressively alive, I’ll never forget that evening. On the bus ride home I wrote the poem that would eventually become Super Sad Generation - a reflection on how a lot of things break and a lot of people get hurt during adolescence". This track is bursting full of questions of how we got to this point, but with few answers, and therein lies the paradox of Parks’ ‘Super Sad Generation’. -Hannah Thacker