Paloma Faith announces Birmingham show

Paloma Faith – one of only two British female artists this decade to have their last three albums go double platinum in the UK – will release her long-awaited fourth album, The Architect, on November 17 via RCA Records.

Paloma, who won the BRIT Award for British Female Solo Artist in 2015 following the phenomenal success of her last record, 2014’s A Perfect Contradiction, explores both personal and political themes on the album.

Of the record, Paloma said: “‘The Architect’ is a social observation record. I was adamant that I wouldn’t write about love. I wanted to look outside of myself. I’m coming at politics from the perspective of the common man or woman, observing why people are suffering. Each song on the record is about a different pocket of the socio-political world that I’ve been delving into.”

She added: “I wanted to write something more modern. On previous albums I’ve been more concerned with the past, but now I’m looking forward because of motherhood and wanting to change things for a better future. It’s a marriage of old and new.”

Faith released her debut album Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful? in 2009, featuring the top twenty singles Stone Cold Sober and New York.

The album reached number nine in the United Kingdom, and was later certified double-platinum in the country. In 2012, she released her second studio album, Fall to Grace, which reached number two in the UK and has since been certified double-platinum. The album produced her first top ten single, Picking Up the Pieces, and the top twenty cover version of INXS's Never Tear Us Apart featured in the 2012 John Lewis advertising campaign.

Her third album, A Perfect Contradiction, was released in 2014 and has become her most successful album to date. The album included the top ten singles Can't Rely on You, and Only Love Can Hurt Like This which became her highest-charting single in the UK.

Besides receiving four Brit Award nominations, winning British Female Solo Artist in 2015, she has also made feature film appearances in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Dread and the 2007 remake of St Trinian's.

Paloma Faith will play Birmingham's Genting Arena on March 21, 2018.

Tickets go on sale from 9.00am on September 29, 2017.

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