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Sigma feat. Paloma Faith
Why we feature this artist The live-band weight inside Changing Changing gives Paloma Faith a drum-and-bass setting that leaves room for the full character of her voice. Sigma’s fast rhythm sits beneath a melody with a much broader sense of time, while piano, …
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The live-band weight inside Changing
Changing gives Paloma Faith a drum-and-bass setting that leaves room for the full character of her voice. Sigma’s fast rhythm sits beneath a melody with a much broader sense of time, while piano, brass and backing vocals give the song the weight of a collective performance. The record sounds expansive because those elements remain separately audible.
The 2014 collaboration
The single appeared in September 2014, following Sigma’s breakthrough with Nobody to Love. Faith supplies the principal vocal, with the original credits also naming Priscilla Jones and Lurine Cato among the supporting voices. Their presence gives the refrain a larger human scale than a single doubled lead could provide.
The writing credits include Ella Eyre, Wayne Hector and the TMS team. The original production information names Ben Kohn on piano and the Kick Horns in the brass section, alongside Sigma’s instrumental and programming work. The arrangement’s detail explains how the record can feel rooted in a live-band sound while the drums move at dance-record speed.
The song inside Life
Changing reached number one in Britain and later became part of Sigma’s 2015 debut album Life. That album placed the Faith collaboration among a wider set of guest-led songs, with each singer providing a different emotional character around the production duo.
Faith’s performance is particularly suited to the track’s gathering intensity. Her tone can sound firm, bruised and defiant within the same melodic line. The supporting voices and instruments make the declaration feel shared, turning a personal resolve into something closer to a roomful of people answering together.
Essential releases
Changing
Paloma Faith’s lead joins backing singers, piano and brass in Sigma’s British number-one single.
Life
The debut album places the collaboration within a larger guest-led production catalogue.