Paloma Faith reveals she's recorded a 'lockdown album' while isolating with family

The singer has taught herself how to produce tracks while working on her fifth record
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Paloma Faith has revealed she has written a new “lockdown album” while in isolation with her partner and young daughter.

The singer, 38, who has been isolating with her partner, French artist Leyman Lahcine, and their little girl who was born in December 2016, said the “good” from the lockdown was so far outweighing the “bad”.

The good included finishing her fifth album, with the star telling the Standard half the songs had been written pre-lockdown. Since March, she has finished off the record and stripped out the tracks that seem “a bit trivial in this situation”.

“I have had a studio set up, and I didn’t really know how to produce before but I do now. I have been recording as if there isn’t a lockdown, working Monday to Friday. So I have made an album that will come out this year and I am hoping to tour it next year - but who knows.”

She said the pandemic has put everyone on an “even level” - and has made it more likely strangers talk to her despite being a celebrity.

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She said: “I feel a bit more useful than normal. I have been helping neighbours with stuff and there are some old people that I help. Sometimes with my job I feel like it is a little bit selfish, and I am not naturally like that. So I feel like I am a bit more validated by being useful to people.”

She added: “All of the social constructs of division have gone. It is like we are living in [the soap opera] Emmerdale now. And everyone just wants contact with other people, me included.

"I want contact with other people, with strangers. I think before there was a division because it was like: ‘Oh she’s famous, I won’t talk to her.’ But now we’re on an even level. The heroes are the NHS and the delivery people are like the celebs of this crisis.”

Faith has been putting the finishing touches to her latest record
Dave Benett

Faith - who until recently had kept the gender of her only child out of the public eye - said the lockdown had re-ignited her love of cooking.

She said: "I was always quite good at cooking but when I had my daughter I went off it. Having kids' food and then [making] adults' is irritating, so you just eat baby food. But my passion for cooking has come through again now, and ingredients."

Faith was speaking ahead of her taking part in a virtual dinner party with radio presenter Nick Grimshaw and comedian Katherine Ryan.

Londoners can book a “seat” at meal box service Gousto’s “Table for 1 Million” dinner party for free, and can eat their supper online with the celebrities and take part in a live question and answer session this Friday.

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