Friday, 13 Nov 2026
Bristol Beacon
Sunday, 15 Nov 2026
O2 Apollo Manchester
Tuesday, 17 Nov 2026
O2 Academy Brixton, London
The Fatal Flaw is an epic tale of love, loss and becoming. If Cacophony, Paris Paloma’s 2024 debut, was a window into her inner world, 2026’s follow-up turns her inside-out, her heart laid bare. Through Paris’s lyricism, soaring vocals and cinematic production, she conducts a meticulous post-mortem of her own emotions, revelling in their gruesomeness and catharsis, and ultimately resolving to cherish them as evidence of humanity at its most sublime.
This new chapter arrives after a defining breakthrough year. Her platinum-certified single “Labour” ignited a global feminist movement, generating over 750 million Spotify streams and more than 11 billion social views, soundtracking conversations from reproductive rights to anti–sexual violence advocacy and establishing Paris as one of the most vital voices of her generation.
The album opens with “Miyazaki”, a defiant creative manifesto named after Hayao Miyazaki. “I have something to say,” Paris declares, breaking the fourth wall as she introduces a record rooted in the unstoppable human need to create. That emotional landscape is as political as it is personal: “Good Girl” confronts the commodification of women’s bodies, while “Good Boy” reframes feminism as solidarity rather than division, with an introduction read by Emma Thompson.
The Fatal Flaw is inhabited by Paris’s great loves — romantic and platonic, love for herself, for nature, and for art itself. Drawing its title from The Secret History and influenced by J.W. Turner, bell hooks and the Pre-Raphaelites, the record rests on a belief in art as a living force, one that “changes the colour of the air that I breathe.”
Now, The Fatal Flaw begins a lineage of its own: an extraordinary collection of songs from an artist at her most radically vulnerable, urging us to be brave enough to feel deeply.