Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains

@Ah Monsieur, how pleasant it would be to live in this world of jingle jangle, butterfly melodies, Gallic insouciance and romance where lovers " are so easily pleased". Yet there's something undeniably wonderful about " City Kiss" that prevents it from coming over at all affected or smug, the darting between English and French suggesting the hurried joy of a mind in love." - NME (Fr)

"The dreamlike Universe of the guy from Charentes-maritimes (south west France) seduces by its delicacy melodic, its Orientalist harmonies, far from electro pop formatting." - Libération (Fr)

The songs of this enthusing album draw atmospheres where colors and lights, singing and melodies spread according to an aquatic lightness. - Le Monde (Fr)

"The Define and obsessing strange universe of French of Bristol." - Les Inrockuptibles (Fr)

"Fickle and ambitious French about wich we not stopped speaking to you"
- Time Out (UK)

"These dreamy songs combine French chansons, Balearic chill-out and jaunty Afrobeat; it shouldn’t work but it does" - Esquire (UK)

"Though Domino has been proudly trumpeting its first French signing, Frànçois Marry doesn't conform to Francopop stereotypes: there's no Phoenixesque soft-rock nostalgia, no Daft Punkish dance pioneering and absolutely no sign of chanson. This fourth album with the Atlas Mountains bears the marks of his co-option into the UK indiesphere, after a five-year spell living in Bristol last decade. Marry's voice, a passably melodic whine, is the kind that has decorated records by wispy guitar bands from time immemorial, and there's a cool fizziness to E Volo Love that calls to mind those bands John Peel used to play, the ones who seemed to be trying to create Burt Bacharach-style mood pieces for the benefit of 12 blokes in anoraks at the Bedford George & Dragon. However, Marry's inspirations come not from the west coast of the US, but West Africa, and in a world crowded with indie types trying to sound as if they're straight out of Lagos, his approach to incorporating rhythms and guitar lines from Afropop – as heard on last year's single Les Plus Beaux – is refreshingly understated. Charming, then, but lightweight."
- The Guardian (UK)

‘their hazy, lazy pop is utterly luscious. [… ]Prepare to swoon’’ - The Fly (UK)

"Fránçois Marry and the lads weave a glistening sonic web of global exoticism across the bopping crowd, complete with choreographed dance moves. […] The devout crowd is charmed from the off" - The Independant (UK)

"classy, romantic, Anglo-Gallic pop with elements of Afrobeat, house and indie rock, E Volo Love is an assured affair" - Q Magazine (UK)