Une Vie de Voleuse

"Hearing Lola Lafon sing always makes me think of Leonard Cohen, and when I saw her live at a concert this impression was magnified. [...] There'll be a lot of comment about this album, L'Abandon, after the song Dominique A wrote for her; this will no doubt serve as a lazy way of ranking her performance, categorizing her, giving her a place in the new French chanson, whereas what really pleases and strikes one about Lola Lafon is actually the way she fits profoundly into a certain tradition that she's defending by reviving it; I mean that of Piaf, Barbara, Colette Magny... [...] 'Les filles volent' - Girls steal. Including their life as thieves. It's a deliberate desire to live apart, differently.[...] 'Now is the time to reclaim life'. La vita nova can't be translated. It survives, carries on. And can be sung." - Arnaud Viviant