A Perfect Contradiction

A Perfect Contradiction
Studio album by Paloma Faith
Released	10 March 2014 (2014-03-10)
Recorded	2012–14
Genre	Pop R&B disco soul
Length	39:22 (standard) 53:21 (deluxe)
Label	RCA Epic
Producer	Various Paloma Faith Klas Åhlund Eric Appapoulay BB Banks Chris Braide AC Burrell G'harah Degeddingseze Mr Hudson Komi and JL Stuart Matthewman Kieron Mcintosh Dave Odlum Dave Okumu Plan B Steve Robson Raphael Saadiq Taura Stinson Kyle Townsend Dylan Wiggins Pharrell Williams
Paloma Faith chronology
Fall to Grace (2012) A Perfect Contradiction (2014) The Architect (2017)
Singles from A Perfect Contradiction
"Can't Rely on You" Released: 23 February 2014 "Only Love Can Hurt Like This" Released: 11 May 2014 "Trouble with My Baby" Released: 11 August 2014 "Ready for the Good Life" Released: 7 November 2014 "Leave While I'm Not Looking" Released: 8 December 2014 "Beauty Remains" Released: 29 March 2015

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Metacritic	66/100
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A Perfect Contradiction is the third studio album by English recording artist Paloma Faith, released by Sony Music Entertainment on 10 March 2014. Musically, the album is a pop album, with elements of R&B, jazz, soul, Motown and disco. The album received mixed to positive reviews; it spawned six singles; "Can't Rely on You", "Only Love Can Hurt Like This", "Trouble with My Baby", "Ready for the Good Life", "Leave While I'm Not Looking" and "Beauty Remains"; the first two of these charted within the top 10 in the United Kingdom and "Only Love Can Hurt Like This" topped the charts in Australia.

On 15 September 2014, it was announced that a repackaged version of the album, entitled A Perfect Contradiction: Outsiders' Edition, will be released on 10 November 2014, postponed from the original date of 3 November 2014. It features three new songs as well as a rearranged version of "Changing", Faith's collaboration with Sigma.

Paloma Faith had posted pictures of her recording her new album for several months on Instagram. She then announced that her new album would be entitled A Perfect Contradiction. On 13 January 2014 Faith premiered the video for the album's lead single, "Can't Rely on You". The single was produced by Pharrell Williams, who wrote the song along with Faith.

Paloma previewed the song "Love Only Leaves You Lonely" at a June 2013 performance in Liverpool, and has since made the song available as a pre-order preview on the iTunes Store. The song "Only Love Can Hurt Like This" was premiered in a stripped back acoustic version on Amazon, and the song was later performed at a Burberry fashion show in February 2014. 90-second previews of all the songs were made available in February 2014 on iTunes, before Faith streamed the album on Soundcloud via Nylon a few days before the album's release. The album's release was promoted with appearances on various UK radio and TV shows, including a performance on the final of The Voice UK Series 3.

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