The Derbyshire-born musician, Paris Paloma, gave the world “labour” in 2023. Its journal-like lyricism and incisive strain of compelling, dark folk-pop skewered the knots of women’s emotional labour, and immediately became a rallying cry worldwide. The track broke over 100 million streams on Spotify, cracked the Official UK Singles Chart and US Billboard Chart, and soundtracked tens of thousands of TikToks. It spurred massive festival appearances, sold-out shows around the UK, US and an opening slot for Maisie Peters. On TikTok, her 400K followers send her videos into six-figure views. Paris continues to gain wider recognition from The Kelly Clarkson Show to Billboard, as YouTube’s Trending Artist on the Rise, a Spotify Equal Ambassador, and as Breakthrough Artist to Watch 2024 by Amazon. Her debut album, Cacophony, is inspired by the creation that comes out of chaos – in 15 tracks, we’re shown Paris as an evocative lyricist who constellates human experiences of grief, love, patriarchy, and trauma with Greek mythology, fantasy, and the literary gothic. The sprawling metaphor of chaos to creation knits the album’s universe together. Cacophony is “a stage backdrop”, against which all future music will be positioned. “I’ve chronically released singles and been quite nomadic. I’m excited to set the scene for my world.” She’s already working on the threads of her next album, a Paris Paloma tapestry in motion.