Paris Amour is not an album about Paris, but it is very much an album of Paris. For singer, songwriter, composer and producer Keren Ann, every song that she writes represents a chapter of her life and takes on an identity deeply entwined with the place in which it was created.

Very often one album can contain snapshots from several continents, reflecting her homes in France and New York City and her travels across the globe. Paris Amour, performed in French, is unique in having been crafted entirely in her home in Paris’ Montmartre neighborhood.

“After years of writing songs,” Keren Ann says, “I find that the environment in which you write tends to become a big part of the project. Many of the songs on this album have nothing to do with Paris – many of them travel to the seaside – but all of them feel like horizons viewed from my living room.”

Out September 12th, 2025 via her own Bring Back Music label, Paris Amour is Keren Ann’s tenth solo album, a stunningly diverse and deeply personal collection of songs that captures a range of emotions with the vibrancy and nuance of a film score, produced by the composer herself.

1. La Sublime Solitude [Sublime Solitude]
2. Paris Amour [Paris Love]
3. Les Désirs Fatigués Des Navires d’Argent [The Tired Desires of Silver Ships]
4. Comme Si La Mer Se Divisait [As if the sea were dividing]
5. La Musique À Fond [Loud music]
6. L’Expérience Étrange De L’Inégal [The Strange Experience of the Unequal]
7. Les Remparts De Saint Malo [The ramparts of Saint Malo]
8. Que La Vie Est Belle [How good life is]
9. L’Écho Des Tirs [The Echo of Shots]

Fully flush with reminiscent reverbs from the adorable sixties and the lushly vivacious seventies, expertly veined with electro-pop pulses, this quite exquisite new recording opens on the smoothly airy La Sublime Solitude [Sublime Solitude] and then we get an effortless grace that flows through the dreamy title track Paris Amour [Paris Love], the dutifully alluring Les Désirs Fatigués Des Navires d’Argent [The Tired Desires of Silver Ships] and then we get the orchestrally humbling beauty of Comme Si La Mer Se Divisait [As if the sea were dividing] brought forth.

Along next is the upbeat and electro-poppy La Musique À Fond [Loud music] and the gently driven, swirling nature of L’Expérience Étrange De L’Inégal [The Strange Experience of the Unequal] and they are backed seamlessly by the warmly poem-esque Les Remparts De Saint Malo [The ramparts of Saint Malo], the set rounding out on the beautifully woven rhythmic sounds and beats of Que La Vie Est Belle [How good life is], coming to a close on the fervently sculptured electro-pop fare of L’Écho Des Tirs [The Echo of Shots].

“Some of the subjects that I speak about can be very dark,” Keren Ann admits. “But for me, there is something very luminous about this record.”

Indeed, Paris Amour contains joy and mourning, sensuality and yearning, passion and loneliness, amour and musique – all the emotions and sensations that thrive in a city with the richness and pulse of Paris.

Official Purchase Link

Keren Ann - “Paris Amour” (Official Lyrics Video)

www.kerenann.com