The Paris Match - If You Don’t Know, Get To Know!
If You Don’t Know, Get to Know! is our dive into the best rising acts you’ll want to discover before everyone else does. This week we’re focusing on rock’n’roll outfit The Paris Match.
Some bands spend years trying to sound timeless. The Paris Match seem to do it naturally. Across tracks like ‘The Letter I Sent’, ‘Take A Look’ and newest single ‘Settle Down’, the band channel the spirit of classic guitar music without ever sounding trapped by it. There are flashes of The Rolling Stones, Lou Reed and Bob Dylan running through their songwriting, but the way they stitch those influences together feels sharp, immediate and completely their own. Warm melodies, swinging backbeats, jangling guitars and bursts of horns collide with a restless energy that feels built for right now.
Produced by Geese frontman Cameron Winter, ‘Settle Down’ feels like a real turning point. The track still carries the romantic charm that made earlier releases so addictive, but there is something more urgent underneath it too. Rather than recreating old sounds, The Paris Match seem interested in pushing them somewhere messier, louder and more alive. Their music has that rare quality of feeling familiar on first listen while still sounding unlike most bands currently orbiting the current scene.
The band’s self-titled EP, released at the end of last year, introduced a group already sounding remarkably fully formed. In just over two years together, The Paris Match have sold out venues like Scala, St. Moritz and The Lexington and landed in Les Inrockuptibles’ ‘Best of Music 2025’ list. It is easy to see why people are starting to pay attention. There is a real sense that the band are trying to shift guitar music somewhere new rather than simply revisit what came before.
What makes The Paris Match exciting is that none of it feels forced. The songs feel genuine, chaotic and full of movement, leaning into the thrill of big hooks and loose, unpredictable performances without losing sight of melody. In a time where so much guitar music feels overly polished or emotionally distant, The Paris Match sound refreshingly human.
The band currently have no upcoming live dates announced, but judging by the energy packed into these early singles, that probably won’t stay the case for long. Keep an eye out.