Paloma Faith: Fall to Grace – review

(RCA)When Hackney's Paloma Faith was preparing to follow up her platinum-selling debut album, 2009's Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?, she reread Milan Kundera's Immortality, declaring it a big influence on her songwriting. Perhaps its themes of art and death are behind lyrics such as Black and Blue's "I know people who use chatrooms as confessionals/ I know down and outs who once… once they were professionals". Then again, she might have randomly cut and pasted a couple of headli...

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