Delivering confessional folk-pop chansons in English and French with the coy, breathy vocals of an ingénue, Mélanie Pain has the sort of oeuvre and style that inspire descriptions like "sugar and spice" and "naughty but nice". 

As one of the main voices of French indie cover-concept band Nouvelle Vague since its debut album in 2004, she has vocally seduced audiences with sassy sweetness on originals and covers like “This is Not a Love Song”, “Teenage Kicks”, “Killing Moon” and “Dance with Me”.

Talented as she is, Mélanie has come up with My Name, her own debut solo album, which incorporates personal refl ections and infl uences from the likes of Françoise Hardy, Nick Cave, Claudine Longet, Nancy Sinatra and Leonard Cohen in an intimate, charming mix of French pop with a dash of folk and Americana.

If the music does not transport you into the smoky echoes of an imagined, vintage Parisian coffee shop, then surely it will ease you, semi-intoxicated, into the night.

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