Melanie Pain - My Name

2009 debut solo album from the vocalist best known for her work with Nouvelle Vague. Delivering confessional Folk-Pop chansons in English and French with the coy, breathy vocals of an ingénue, Melanie Pain has the sort of oeuvre and style that inspire descriptions like 'sugar and spice' and 'naughty but nice'. My Name incorporates personal reflections and influences such as 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 doesn't take you into the faintly smoky echoes of an imagined, vintage Parisian coffee shop, it will surely ease you, semi-intoxicated, into the night. 10 tracks.