Sweating under the strobes at Midnight Lovers in LA, dancing to bass under the K Bridge in Greenpoint, discovering new faces at Venue MOT in London - these are the dark, enveloping spaces that give life to Arlo Parks' powerful third album "Ambiguous Desire".

The result of this love of dark spaces is 12 tracks of the British singer-songwriter's most vulnerable, confident and euphoric music to date. Songs like "Get Go" play with breakbeats from pirate radio stations, while Parks uses her signature lyricism to tell the story of someone surrendering to the thrill of the night. "Beams" builds shimmering chords over tender lyrics about healing from a painful past love, and "Senses" features one of Parks' friends and musical role models, South London's Sampha, in an introspective and soulful exploration of destructive relationships.

With references ranging from the queer hedonism of legendary New York DJ Larry Levan and his club Paradise Garage, to the moody nocturnal British beats of The Streets and Burial, to the glitchy synth catharsis of LCD Soundsystem and the rootsy house grooves of Theo Parrish, 25-year-old Parks is at her most confident and experimental on "Ambiguous Desire".

Like a descent into the intoxication of tightly connected new bodies or an emergence from the bass into the glistening daylight, "Ambiguous Desire" is the soundtrack to uninhibited self-expression. A life-affirming new work from one of the most irrepressible voices on the music scene.