Derbyshire, UK · dark folk-pop

Paris Paloma

2 upcoming festivals

Mythic, incantatory folk-pop — 'Labour' made her the internet's feminist bard, and the deeper catalog keeps the incantation going.

Paris Paloma is a singer-songwriter from Derbyshire, England, working in a strand of dark folk and folk-pop. Her songs draw on mythology, folklore and religious imagery, with layered vocals, fingerpicked guitar and arrangements that build from quiet openings into chant-like choruses. She studied fine art, and a similar interest in symbolism runs through her lyrics and artwork.

She reached a wide audience with "labour," a song about domestic and emotional labour that circulated heavily online and was widely adopted as a feminist anthem. Her subsequent releases have continued in the same register, treating female anger, folklore and the natural world as recurring subjects.

dark folk-pop