Paloma... at her most personal

PALOMA Faith returns to Plymouth Pavilions bran-dishing brand new album Infinite Things.

- CLARE ROBINSON

She had written most of the album’s songs before the pandemic. Then we went into lockdown, and she ripped them all up and started afresh.

“Lockdown made me realise on a personal level that I was a creative person, and I’d lost some of that creativity in the commercial world, and also in becoming a parent,” she observes. “I feel like I got myself back. I had time to think about who I am, and what is valuable to me.”

Four albums, a flourishing acting career – including a role as Bet Sykes in the Epix Batman prequel series Pennyworth – ambassadorships for Greenpeace and Oxfam, her stints as a judge on The Voice and The Voice kids had taken up a lot of her time.

Lockdown taught her that, for most of her career, she’d been “a rat on a wheel” she cackles. “A hamster in a cage!” Locked down in London with her long-term partner and daughter, Paloma finally had time to take stock of her frenetic career, and decide what was meaningful to her.

“The philosophy behind the whole album is about dealing with the issues of what is actually important. We live in a world where there is so much value to be found in small things, but we never slow down enough to take stock of them.”