"The Lovers' Music on the midnight air from United Kingdom. Their music, video, fashion... is so coooooooool! and erotic & kawaii! :)"
100% KAWAI (Japan)

"Pardon My French" contains the kind of big production pop nobody is supposed to make anymore. I think it could be my favourite album of the year."
EXPLETIVE UNDELETED (Sean Smith)

"Ils sont irresistibles"
LONDON O MADAME

"Pardon My French has the pair more playful than ever ... One thing is for sure: they remain one of a kind in Sheffield or anywhere else in this broken land of ours."
THE STAR (David Dunn)

"Utterly modern Burlesque"
XOX MAGAZINE

"Excellent debut album."
THE TIMES

"The set climaxes with Fred de Fred dropping to his knees, sliding between singer Marion's pins and convulsing with his guitar like a human sex toy."
NME


"The Lovers do poignant as well as puerile. (...) They make you reach for the cravat and velvet smoking jacket."
THE GUARDIAN


"The Lovers make crinkly winkly music to twist your hips to. (...) They occupy a world where girls dress like presents and boys dress like men."
I-D MAGAZINE


"Kitsch cocktail music, criss-crossed with bossanova rhythms and electronica all combine to seduce."
THE SUN


"Lines such as "Come drink my wine/If all that has passed your innocent lips is juice and tea and water" reminds us of Cocker's dry humour and deadpan lasciviousness."
THE INDEPENDENT

"Tres magnifique."
TIME OUT

"The Lovers are miles apart from anything you are likely to have heard in modern pop for quite some time. Two French mavericks who find themselves making music in Sheffield and having songs co-written by Jarvis Cocker ... It is impossible not to be enchanted ... The Lovers take you on a journey as sexy and light hearted as a swingers party at Salvador Dali's house ... Unashamedly romantic, thoroughly modern The Lovers are waiting for you in their bedroom right now."
Paul Moody of NME

" ... the key to The Lovers' musical and lyrical genius -- their ability to effortlessly juggle parody and kitsch with intimacy and real emotional engagement."
3AM MAGAZINE (David Thompson)

"The Lovers are so pop that they'd make your granny dance and so sleazy that hotels are redesigning rooms in their honour as we speak."
THE 'SPRAY Q&A (Stuart Heritage)

"A record so seedy it would make Serge Gainsbourg blush, & Anais Nin join a convent."
NME


"La Le...should be introduced as compulsory listening for French GCSE students."
David McKenna of The Guardian


“Wenezzer I get pissed, I like to geeve a Frurnch Keez.”
DJ MAGAZINE Review of Birthday Party NiGHT (Simon A. Morrison)

"Peculiar little Pop songs with an electronic twist. A slow beat with a female and male vocal combination. Makes for a quirky affair that’s very engaging indeed."
MOJO

"This month’s must have tunes...Gallic charm + Sheffield steel = peachy electro-pop."
Mix Mag (Tony Naylor)

"The atmosphere here tonight has remained delightful; the audience totally rapt with the performance The Lovers give, which is a perfectly executed one. They are a pleasure to watch (or should that be 'experience'?) and the evening feels like a real event, a real breath of unselfconscious revelling..."
Sandman Magazine (Rebecca Tattersall)


"At times wistful and full of melancholy, at others lustful...and full of red wine."
FLUX (Sean Smith)

"Last Tango in Sheffield"
BAGDAD MAGAZINE, ISSUE NUMBER 1 (Jim Palmer)

"Marion is stunning. She wears next to nothing, flirts with her all body, sings about stripping and makes every male and nearly every female trapped in an unavoidable lust. They play tight, they sound good, they seem to be having a great time, they are truly great. The set ends with Fred de Fred playing the guitar between his lovers legs; and that my friend was worth the ticket price and so much more."
THE LOVERS AT LOST VAGUENESS, HALLAM STUDENTS UNION (Anthony Levy)

"Massaging your ears with their cheeky bossa-nova grooves and sultry Gainsbourg-and-Bardot-esque vocals are The Lovers...if ever there was music that was created to inspire a feeling of romance, paired with a sparkle of lust, then this is surely it."
DEFUNKTION

"The laptop Lovers are the missing link between lustrous, organic torch-singing and inventively home-cooked micro- house, with an unmistakable European sensibility all of their own."
Metro / Glasgow

"Achingly lustful French bossa-nova duo."
THE GUARDIAN

"Think a Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin for the 21st Century and you are maybe 25% of the way to imagining this."
OPTIMO / Glasgow

"The perfect Valentine’s tonic."
Leadmill / Sheffield

"The response to their live performance was so great they played a second set for us towards the end of the night."
WHITE TRASH COOKING / GLASGOW

"It is a languid, coquettish treat."
NME

"In short, The Lovers have put the fun back into electronic music and are exactly the type of band that work in a club environment. In other words they make you want to dance."
THE LIST (Sandra Marron)

"Such joie de vivre that the fun is infectious."
CANADIAN TIMES

"Meme Jarvis Cocker a succombe au charme du couple et lui a offert sa collaboration."
CANADA.COM

"Lovers' lovemaking session(...) Quelle Franglais !"
COOL HUNTING, US

"Perky pop, kitsch, quirk, and sex with sense of humor (...) Take a listen !"
WHY TRAVEL TO FRANCE, US

"Incantevole, affascinante, intelligente, innovativo, amabilmente kitsch, sexy, ma soprattutto geniale."
ONDAROCK, IT

"Un régal !"
20 Minutes

"Les jeux amoureux des Lovers, duo forme par Marion Benoist et Fred de Fred , erotisent leurs chansons pop avec une fraicheur ludique et mutine plus croisee en France depuis les comptines d’Elli & Jacno."
Le Monde (Stephane Davet)

"Deux français exilés à Sheffield inventent le cabaret electronique sexy et plein d’humour Frenchy."
Les Inrockuptibles / Hors Serie / Pop en France (Pascal Bertin)

"Ce duo inattendu donne un bon coup de fraicheur a la production francaise."
Paris Paname

"Gai et leger comme le bonheur"
JEUNE ET JOLIE

"Un univers joliment decale, coquin et truffe d’humour."
TGV Magazine

"Un couple de français de Sheffield impose à la pop une sexy cure."
Les Inrockuptibles (J.D Beauvallet)

Hype classieux en diable...Une musique fraîche et gaie qui se mâche comme un bon Mister Freeze fraise à l'heure de la canicule.
BENZINE MAGAZINE (Denis Verloes)

"Finalement, cet album il est un peu comme toi, bébé : Romantique et gentiment kitsch."
A Voir A Lire / M6 (Frédéric Lamoulie)

 

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