Paris Paloma Releases Highly-Anticipated Debut Album ‘Cacophony’
August 30, 2024 BY Emma Orland
Today, rising UK artist Paris Paloma releases her highly anticipated debut album Cacophony, featuring “labour,” the viral, Billboard-charting single that struck a chord with women around the globe, launching tens of thousands of TikToks in response and reaching over 160 million streams on Spotify. The album’s 15 tracks range from tender and heartbreaking to sublimely aggressive and vengeful. Taking influences from dark pop, folk, and indie, Paris creates a body of work that evokes something primal, powerful, and innately feminine. Listen and purchase HERE.
Along with the album, Paris releases the new video for “last woman on earth,” a haunting song that draws attention to the epidemic of violence against women worldwide. Paris shares, “‘last woman on earth’ is a song that speaks to the constant terror of being a woman, wishing for my body to be delivered to nature and to move through the world safely in life and rest peacefully in death. The song pleads to somehow escape the sexual violence and exploitation of women’s bodies within the patriarchy, as well as imploring a male listener to feel the same sense of urgency when it comes to women’s safety.” Read Paris’s full post HERE and watch the poignant music video HERE.
Featuring previous singles ‘the warmth’, ‘boys, bugs and men’, ‘my mind (now)’, ‘drywall’, ‘as good a reason’, ‘yeti’ and ‘labour’, ‘Cacophony’ is a confident and powerful debut body of work, which thoughtfully addresses topics such as isolation (‘pleaser’), community (‘his land’) and the celebration of womanhood (‘knitting song’), alongside, as Paris describes, “the apocalypse songs” (‘Triassic love song’, ‘escape pod’ and ‘bones on the beach’) that focus on reaching the lowest point, before allowing self-growth and managing to survive and live again.
Cacophony is deeply shaped by Paris’ life, but it is also inspired by literature and cinematography and she has shared the collection of books that have influenced the album as a reading list here. Today, Paris has encouraged fans to celebrate the album release with a ‘dayofcacophony’, which suggests release day activities alongside organized events around the world, including at London’s Morocco Bound Bookshop in Bermondsey between 10-11am, where Paris will be joining fans in-store. She will also host in-store events and signings this weekend in London at St John’s Church with Banquet Records, and at Rough Trade in Bristol and Liverpool. The full list of upcoming events and shows can be found HERE.
Paris’ rousing lyrics and stirring sound have already led to performances on BBC’s Later…with Jools Holland and The Kelly Clarkson Show, as well as critical acclaim from The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, PAPER, Bust, CNN, NME, Billboard, Trackstar and more. She continues to garner mass appeal as YouTube’s Trending Artist on the Rise, Breakthrough Artist to Watch 2024 by Amazon, as Spotify Juniper Artist to Watch and as Spotify Equal Ambassador, while selling out headline tours and performing with legendary artists like Stevie Nicks.
Earlier this year, Paris honored her devoted fan community by immortalizing their voices with a new version of “labour” to celebrate 1 year since its original release. Featuring over 100 fan vocals throughout the song, “LABOUR (the cacophony)” has amassed over 10 million views on TikTok, 3 million views on Instagram, and 2.5 million views on YouTube. Watch the video HERE.
Watch Paris Paloma’s Trackstar Session & Interview Below:
Through her thoughtful and confident lyrics, Paris Paloma paints pictures and tells stories with her songs, drawing parallels between the past and present to bring her own perspective on themes of love, grief, death and power. With a Goldsmiths degree in Fine Arts, her songwriting and visuals are inspired by fantasy as much as real life, drawing inspiration from mythology, art history and the Romantics, alongside the human experience.
The album title, Cacophony, is inspired by Stephen Fry’s Mythos, ruminating on the creation myth. “From this chaotic cosmic yawn, creation sprang forth,” Paris explains, “so this is a collection that makes sense of the overwhelming space of my mind where my anxiety, my OCD, and trauma processing lives.”
Cacophony tracklisting:
- my mind (now)
- pleaser
- his land
- drywall
- labour
- boys, bugs and men
- knitting song
- as good a reason
- triassic love song
- escape pod
- last woman on earth
- bones on the beach
- hunter
- the warmth
- yeti
Paris Paloma Tour Dates:
Headline Tour Dates
August 30 – London, United Kingdom – Banquet Records (in-store) – SOLD OUT
August 31 – Bristol, United Kingdom – Rough Trade (in-store) – SOLD OUT
September 1 – Liverpool, United Kingdom – Rough Trade (in-store)
September 6 – Paris, France – Le Trabendo – SOLD OUT
September 7 – Bruxelles, Belgium – Le Botanique – SOLD OUT
September 9 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso – SOLD OUT
September 11 – Koln, Germany – Die Kantine – SOLD OUT
September 12 – Hamburg, Germany – Mojo Club – SOLD OUT
September 14 – Berlin, Germany – Heimathafen Neukolln – SOLD OUT
September 15 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Lille VEGA – SOLD OUT
September 17 – Stockholm, Sweden – Debaser Hornstulls Strand
September 18 – Oslo, Germany – Parkteatret Scene
November 17 – Manchester, United Kingdom – Gorilla – SOLD OUT
November 18 – Glasgow, United Kingdom – Oran Mor – SOLD OUT
November 20 – London, United Kingdom – Koko
November 22 – Brighton, United Kingdom – Chalk
November 23 – Cambridge, United Kingdom – Cambridge Junction
November 24 – Bristol, United Kingdom – SWX
November 26 – Nottingham, United Kingdom – Rescue Rooms – SOLD OUT
November 27 – Birmingham, United Kingdom – O2 Academy Birmingham
November 28 – Leeds, United Kingdom – Brudenell Social Club – SOLD OUT
