Marietta La Passagere

Sophomore album by Marietta, La Passagère follows Basement Dreams Are The
Bedroom Cream (Born Bad Records, 2015), which was lauded by French daily
newspaper Liberation, magazines Les Inrockuptibles, Magic, New Noise and online
magazine Noisey. After touring with his band for two years and playing well-received
concerts at Villette Sonique, Rock en Seine, Levitation Festival, Musiques Volantes,
Bars en Trans, laureate of leading French development prize Fair 2017 Guillaume
Marietta has come back with nine songs written in French for the first time. The
album was recorded in Los Angeles by Chris Cohen, singer-songwriter and
producer extraordinaire, with two albums signed on Captured Tracks and past
member of Deerhoof and The Curtains. Mixed by Kenneth Gilmore, permanent
member of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, who counts in his mixing catalogue Front
Row Seat To Earth by Weyes Blood and My Dreams Dictate My Reality by SOKO.
A carnal, sensual, hallucinating and melancholic record, fed by representations of the
woman, the modern city, self-abandon, paranoia and redemption. La Passagère is
inhabited by the ghosts of Syd Barret and Lou Reed, and nods to contemporary
productions by Kurt Vile, Cate Lebon, Tim Presley, Kevin Morby, and of course
Chris Cohen.