Grooves, Glitter, and Growth: Paris Pick’s New Album "Third Time’s a Charm"
Paris Pick has had the magic to turn vulnerability into song for a long time, but with her latest album Third Time's a Charm (released September 5, 2025 on Neon Moon Records), she's brighter than ever before. The self-styled Yacht-Pop Princess maps new waters with a style fusing '70s sheen, indie-pop hooks, and retro-soul sensitivity—music made for golden-hour cruises, neon-lit nights, and alone time with your own thoughts. With its lush harmonies and sharp production, the album is a summer bottle: fizzy, sugary, and lightly intoxicating.
Recorded in Whitehorse with a close-knit ensemble, the album bears the stamp of community and fraternity. Guitarist Zacharie Pelland, bassist Aiden Tentrees, and drummer Patrick Docherty release grooves that are earthy and relaxed, and muted trumpet timbres and synth washes grant the songs their kaleidoscopic sheen. Co-producer Jordy Walker helps keep the sound anchored in its golden middle-ground of yacht-rock complacency and modern-day candor, giving Paris's velvet vocals plenty of room to soar. The end result is an album that's as naked as it is confident, an album that's as unapologetic about what it is—without leaving much room for surprise.
Third Time's a Charm is actually an album of reinvention. The bubbly title track wallows in the thrill of do-overs, "Same Page" probes the delicate balance between growth and love, and "You Should Know I Love You by Now" captures the subtle loveliness of old love. But its lead single "Get My Baby Back (Extended)" sticks around longest: a searing slow-burner that turns heartbreak into hope, interwoven with determination and saucy self-awareness. The video, filmed by Blair Coyle, goes all-out cinematic chaos—Pick as maniacally unleashed ex boy who's living through the chaos of love lost and found again.
For longtime fans, this body of work is a revelation and homecoming. It's Paris Pick most adventurous: groove-honking, harmony-splashed, and lyrically demanding. And for collectors, the limited edition 180g graffiti-coloured vinyl is as big a visual treat as the songs are an aural one. On Third Time's a Charm, Pick doesn't merely create an album—she shares a radiant testament that vulnerability and strength aren't opposing qualities, that love never operates on a schedule, and that the third time can really be the charm.
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