AMG Review of Paint Your Face

Jon O'Brien
All Music Guide

The first artist to be signed to celebrity blogger Perez Hilton's record label, French singer/songwriter Yahnis Sahraoui, aka Sliimy, first found fame on the Internet after posting an acoustic rendition of Britney Spears' "Womanizer" on MySpace. The attention-grabbing track doesn't appear on his debut album, Paint Your Face, with the falsetto-voiced extrovert instead focusing on a sound that sits somewhere between the classic sounds of the Beatles and the kitschy infectious dance-pop of Mika. Produced by multi-instrumentalist Feed, the 2009 release includes the European hit single "Wake Up."