Read the collection of reviews on Garageband.com, where Aurelie was
 track of the day on August 5th

From Fmagazine - the broadband music magazine
....Their music will haunt you and obvious comparisons to Kate Bush and Portishead will ensue.    ....    One of the stand-out cuts from the album, Lonely Camel sings a sad song and tells a torrid tale of eastern lands full of promise.

From www.intomusic.co.uk
A collaboration between a bedroom dance/music producer and a French chanteuse singer has created something quite rare. It's very much in the vein of Massive Attack and general chill-out music, what a voice though.

The music gets quite experimental in parts, where as In the City and I Have a Book With Me seem to work better and are more straight ahead acoustic songs. I think they're going to interest a lot of record companies.

(Angel in Ballet Shoes was Number One in the intomusic.co.uk Top 40 in mid-July, 2004.)

Jumbo Records, Leeds, shop website
Superb self-produced album... strange tripped out electronics mixed with brilliant vocals... think Goldfrapp, Moloko, Lamb, Kate Bush, Spektrum... a few dancefloor cuts, and heavily recommended.

www.panartist.com - Aurelie debut project, Angel In Ballet Shoes, does not take up the reins where Daft Punk--FR and Basement Jaxx-GB left off. But rather, laying down deep electronica grooves, feeding in guitar twists and samples, overlaying synth lines and dropping in accidental hall chanson, they chop melody but they sound original!

Aurelie - Angel In Ballet Shoes
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Everyone I know who took a gap year either spent it working to raise the cash required to get through university or went off travelling. While both of these are admirable in their own way, when you finally get to university you're going to find that if you worked, people will ask you why you didn't travel and if you travelled, people will incessantly ask you about "finding yourself" and make jokes behind your back. That's if they can get a word in edgeways while you complain about not having any money.

What you really need to do is something different, something no one else will have done. If you could turn up at the fresher's fair with tales of how you spent your year out making an album you'd be the toast of the town. This is what Nick Lewis will be able to do. Even better, the record is actually good!

Teaming up with French vocalist Aurélie Guinard, Lewis has produced a stunning album. Opening with the title track, which pushes the wrong drum beats and guitar lines together like repelling magnets but somehow makes them stick, Angel In Ballet Shoes is an album that some great flair in its music, stripping back to the bare minimum of sounds. Aurélie herself has a voice that is both strange and beautiful; she sings softly, occasionally adding some unnatural noises, while on tracks like Drone and Tear From An Angel, Lewis cuts up and affects her voice digitally to use it as an instrument in its own right.

To give you some points of reference, there are elements of Massive Attack, Sneaker Pimps, PJ Harvey and Carina Round on Angel In Ballet Shoes, but really it's got a sound and feel all of its own. A rarity in style and elegance.

Andy Malt was writing on IndigoFlow on May 26th, 2004.