[ATTENDED: September 27, 2025] Paris Paloma-–All Things Go [Day 2]
After G Flip, we hung in place for Paris Paloma to come out. I knew her song Labour and really liked it but I didn’t know anything else about her.
She had a very cool backdrop–white drawings and her name in white on a black background. I really couldn’t stop looking at it and even drew it a bit (I had brought a sketch book).
The opening from her album (a looped vocal line of “my mind (now)”). Paris came out in a long flowing white dress.
She and her sang the lead vocals and moments later the song kicked in.
Paris played acoustic guitar and the rest of her band was a guy with a guitar. And they made a big sound. I love the way my My Mind turned so big with her voice so powerful.
She played an interesting mix of quiet songs (drywall) and song with bigger (somewhat darker) choruses (as good a reason). Both guys sang harmony on the choruses and really made the vocals huge. Her guitarist also played bass and there were definitely keys coming from somewhere–maybe triggered by the drums?
She said she’d hear the festival described as Lesbian Coachella and that was exactly where she wanted to be.
Her newest song Good Boy is great–a total diss of powerful man. It opens with a woman saying “I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down, I just didn’t expect them to be such losers.”
The Warmth opened with this great tribal drum beat and I realized how spare most of her songs are–washes of keys or guitars but mostly drums. It feels so earthy, very “chanting in the woods” and I’m here for it. Her voice soars beautifully but she can also hit some notes that are not off but that are almost scary dark.
The Fruits was a single she released in 2022 and it has a similar style to Labour a kind of layered vocal chant. It’s interesting after not hearing her guitar for a few songs how abrupt it sounded. She continued playing guitar for yeti, which was kind of slow and felt a little samey.
But the tribal beats returned for Hunter and I liked that it was a bit more intense. There are so many chanted backing vocals, I feel like she’s doing something unusual in pop music and I really like it. It reminds me of a less dancey Aurora [a quick search says that Paris has cited Aurora as an influence]. Plus the song has this line as the music stopped: if I was easy to kill you would have done it already.
Labour got he crowd really going and there was a big sing along at the end. I hadn’t realized how aggressively feminist her lyrics were and I’m going to have to listen to her some more.
SETLIST
- my mind (now) ©
- drywall ©
- as good a reason ©
- Good Boy §
- the warmth ©
- notre dame ¾
- the fruits ½
- yeti ©
- hunter
- labour ©
§ single (2025)
© Cacophony (2023)
¾ single (2023)
½ single (2022)
Martin Z uploaded her stream from Amazon:
I Just Read About That... 
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