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Infinite Things

2020 studio album by Paloma Faith

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ102128239 ↗
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Infinite Things is the fifth studio album by British singer Paloma Faith, released through Sony Music on 13 November 2020. It was supported by the singles "Better Than This", "Gold," and "Monster".

Infinite Things received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for its emotional depth but some criticism of its reliance on mainstream pop conventions. Much of the record was written during the COVID-19 lockdown, which Faith described as a period of creative renewal. Lyrically, it explores themes of love, sickness, and loss, and features contributions from writers including MNEK, Josef Salvat, and Sigrid.

Background

Faith's previous studio album The Architect became her first album to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart. Almost a year later, she released a special edition of the album, named the Zeitgeist Edition, containing other songs that were made during the making of the songs from the standard album. Aside from her album, she also became a figure for automobile manufacturing company Škoda, recording two covers "Make Your Own Kind of Music" and "I've Gotta Be Me" for two of their adverts that ran in 2018 and 2019, respectively. At the end of 2019, she said she would like to release a new album next year.

In early 2020, she released the song "Mistakes" in collaboration with tropical house record producer Jonas Blue, which sparked the first rumours on possibly releasing an album.

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Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2018, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2020-11-13. For this dossier, Infinite, Things and studio is the immediate research focus.
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