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"8/10" Blurt // "Definitely one of our favorite albums of 2010 and an auspicious sneak preview of Dissard's next one." Lucid Culture NYC // http://blurt-online.com/reviews/view/2202/

Download 17 tracks album here : http://mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/paris-one-takes-city-series-2010

With Marianne Dissard, Brian Lopez, Sergio Mendoza, Olivier Samouillan, Geoff Hidalgo

Songs written by Joey Burns, Naïm Amor, Christian Ravaglioli and one track each for Antonio Gramentieri, Mirko Monduzzi, Brian Lopez and Sergio Mendoza. All lyrics by Marianne Dissard except one track by Sergio Mendoza and one track by Brian Lopez. Details here : http://mariannedissard.bandcamp.com/album/paris-one-takes-city-series-2010


Lucid Culture review : "Sometimes the best albums are the hardest ones to explain. For example, Marianne Dissard's new one, Paris One Takes has been in heavy rotation here at Lucid Culture HQ for over a month. Everybody loves it -- for Dissard's sultry, breathy, angst-laden vocals, the charm and bite of her French lyrics, and the exuberant intensity of the band. Stylistically, up-and-coming New York chanteuse/bandleader Kerry Kennedy is the obvious comparison. Recorded live in the studio, the album collects songs from Dissard's acclaimed debut album L'Entredeux as well as from the forthcoming L'Abandon, scheduled for release late this year.

Although there's a strong noir cabaret influence here, this is most definitely a rock record, a potent document in itself in that this is Dissard's road band, tight and inspired, still buzzing from the energy of a European tour. They take the coy "choc-choc" bounce of La Peau Du Lait and thrash it, following with the creeping menace of Le Lendemain, a co-write with longtime collaborator Joey Burns of Calexico (Dissard memorably sang the female vocal on Calexico's cover of John Cale's Ballad of Cable Hogue several years ago). The scurrying Les Draps Sourds evokes Piaf at her most frantic, spiced with Olivier Samouillan's bracing rai-flavored viola and Brian Lopez' reverb guitar. Merci de Rien du Tout/Flashback mines a catchy yet brooding Velvet Underground vein.

With a cynical, snarling guitar-fueled edge, Les Confettis reminds of Dylan's When You Go Your Way. Shifting and mixing styles, the band make ominously hallucinatory desert rock out of the anguished 6/8 cabaret ballad Indiana Song, and follow that with the stomping garage-rock abandon of Trop Exprès. Sans-Façon, a beautiful lament, evokes the Jayhawks circa Sound of Lies, while It's Love, written by drummer Sergio Mendoza, reminds of Botanica in a particularly pensive moment. Other tracks add echoes of Steve Wynn and electric Neil Young to Dissard and Burns' brooding melodies."