Paloma Faith has announced the release of her latest single Last Night On Earth. The new track is a soaring, Sia-esque pop anthem – and one of the most unapologetically political songs of the Londoner’s career to date.
Introducing the new tune on her social media accounts on the weekend, Faith suggested that the apocalyptic motifs of Last Night On Earth reflect her anxiety about the state of the world in 2020. Posting on Twitter, she said: “I have felt for a while that it’s the beginning of the end. It feels like evil prevails on Earth right now with a huge increase in segregation, racism, elitism, class divide, climate emergency, and tyrants ruling our nations…This song was about how in light of that, we really need to be kind to those closest to us and not argue about petty things and hold our loved ones close.”
I have felt for a while that it’s the beginning of the end. It feels like evil prevails on Earth right now with a huge increase in segregation, racism, elitism, class divide, climate emergency, and tyrants ruling our nations… pic.twitter.com/IdyEAgCQNk
— Paloma Faith (@Palomafaith) October 24, 2020
Last Night On Earth is the third promotional single from Faith’s upcoming fifth studio album Infinite Things; following on from lead release Better Than This (of the singer’s most intense and powerful ballads to date) and the more up-tempo, drum and synth-driven Falling Down. The multi-talented singer-songwriter will take the new record on tour in 2021 with 27 dates scheduled across the UK next September and October.
The Hackney-born songstress, who has previously scored top 10 hit singles with Only Love Can Hurt Like This, Changing, Picking Up The Pieces and Can’t Rely On You, is set to release the new album on November 13th. It comes three years after her Platinum certified 2017 LP The Architect; the deluxe Zeitgest Edition of which spawned another top 10 single in Lullaby, Faith’s second dance-pop collaboration with Sigala.
Faith has spoken of her sense of creative freedom on Infinite Things, which was recorded and mixed during the Coronavirus lockdown. She told BBC News “I think my voice sounds better, and that’s a combination of producing the vocals myself, and also the lack of inhibition. When you’re alone you take more risks, because you can delete it. Whereas when you’re in the studio with an engineer you’re scared to, because they never delete anything – even when you ask.”
As well as immersing herself in the socially-conscious themes of the new album, Faith has spoken powerfully on pregnancy, mental health and body image over recent weeks. Posting on her Instagram earlier this month, she said “I am not skinny, and neither am I large. I am me, and my body standards are about me and how I feel the best in my own skin. I wish I could be confident in any shape and any size but the reality is, I’m just not. I’m insecure and worried, but I want to find the balance between a healthy relationship with my body and food and an obsessive one. It’s all a work in progress and self acceptance is a personal journey never meant to make anyone else feel shitty.”
Paloma Faith’s new single Last Night On Earth is available to buy and listen to now.
