Paris Paloma releases her first album “Cacophony”

Rising 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 world, sparking tens of thousands of TikToks in response and reaching over 160 million streams on Spotify.

The album’s 15 tracks range from tender and breezy to sublimely aggressive and vengeful. Drawing inspiration from dark pop, folk and indie, Paris creates a body of work that evokes something primal, powerful and innately feminine.

Alongside the album, Paris is releasing the music video for “Last Woman on Earth,” a haunting song that draws attention to the epidemic of violence against women around the world. Paris shares, “Last Woman on Earth is a song about the constant terror of being a woman, wishing that your body would be left to nature and be able to move safely through the world in life and rest in peace in death. The song pleads for some way to escape the sexual violence and exploitation of women’s bodies within patriarchy, while imploring a male listener to feel the same sense of urgency when it comes to women’s safety.” Read Paris’ full article HERE and watch the poignant music video HERE.

Along with previous singles ‘the warm’, ‘boys, bugs and men’, ‘my mind (now)’, ‘drywall’, ‘as good a reason’, ‘yeti’ and ‘labour’, ‘Cacophony’ is a confident and powerful debut, thoughtfully tackling topics such as isolation (‘pleaser’), community (‘his land’) and celebrating womanhood (‘knitting song’), alongside, as Paris describes it, ‘apocalypse songs’ (‘Triassic love song’, ‘escape pod’ and ‘bones on the beach’) that focus on reaching the lowest point, before allowing personal growth and managing to survive and live again.

Cacophony is deeply rooted in Paris’s life, but it’s also inspired by literature and film. Here, she’s shared the collection of books that influenced the album in the form of a reading list. Today, Paris has encouraged fans to celebrate the album’s release with a “Cacophony Day,” featuring activities on release day in addition to events around the world, including at London’s Morocco Bound Bookshop in Bermondsey between 10am and 11am, where Paris will join fans in-store. She’ll also be hosting in-store events and book signings this weekend in London at St John’s Church with Banquet Records, and at Rough Trade in Bristol and Liverpool.

Paris’ catchy lyrics and upbeat music have already earned her appearances on BBC’s Later…with Jools Holland and The Kelly Clarkson Show, as well as rave reviews from Sunday Times Culture, The Washington Post, The Guardian, PAPER, Bust, CNN, NME, Billboard, Trackstar and more. She continues to garner audiences’ attention as a rising YouTube trending artist, Amazon’s Breakthrough Artist to Watch in 2024, Spotify Juniper’s Artist to Watch and Spotify Equal Ambassador, all while selling out tours and performing with legendary artists including Stevie Nicks.

Earlier this year, Paris honored her devoted fan base by immortalizing their voices with a new version of “labor” to celebrate the one-year anniversary of its original release. Featuring over 100 fan voices throughout the song, “LABOUR (the cacophony)” has racked up over 10 million views on TikTok, 3 million views on Instagram, and 2.5 million views on YouTube. Watch the video HERE.

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, loss, death and power. A graduate of Goldsmiths in Fine Art, her compositions and visuals draw as much on fantasy as they do on real life, drawing inspiration from mythology, art history and the Romantics, as well as the human experience.

The album’s title, “Cacophony,” is inspired by Stephen Fry’s Mythos, which meditates on the creation myth. “Out of this chaotic cosmic yawn, creation emerged,” Paris explains, “so it’s a collection that makes sense of the overwhelming space in my mind where my anxiety, OCD, and trauma processing live.”

Don’t miss Paris’s tour this fall in Europe and the UK, kicking off September 6th in Paris and ending November 28th in Leeds. All upcoming dates are listed below.

Paris Paloma Tour Dates:

August 30 – London – Banquet Records (in store) – SOLD OUT
August 31 – Bristol – Rough Trade (in store) – SOLD OUT
September 1st – Liverpool – Rough Trade (in store)
September 6 – Paris, France – Le Trabendo – SOLD OUT
September 7 – Brussels, Belgium – Le Botanique – SOLD OUT
September 9 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso – SOLD OUT
September 11 – Cologne, 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 Stage
November 17 – Manchester – Gorilla – SOLD OUT
November 18 – Glasgow – Oran Mor – SOLD OUT
November 20 – London – Koko
November 22 – Brighton – Chalk
November 23 – Cambridge – Cambridge Junction
November 24 – Bristol – SWX
November 26 – Nottingham – Rescue Rooms – SOLD OUT
November 27 – Birmingham – O2 Academy Birmingham
November 28 – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club – SOLD OUT

Photo credit: Phoebe Fox

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