Artist: She & Him
Title: Volume Two
Label: Merge
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 185kbit av.
Time: 00:47:10
Size: 66.31 mb
Rip Date: 2010-03-17
Str Date: 2010-04-05
01. Thieves 4:07
02. In The Sun 2:50
03. Don't Look Back 3:23
04. Ridin' In My Car 3:15
05. Lingering Still 3:02
06. Me And You 3:19
07. Gonna Get Along Without You Now 2:31
08. Home 4:41
09. I'm Gonna Make It Better 3:31
10. Sing 3:13
11. Over It Over Again 3:29
12. Brand New Shoes 3:04
13. If You Can't Sleep 2:55
14. I Can Hear Music (Bonus Track) 3:50
Release Notes:
Any lingering doubts that Zooey Deschanel was just a fine actress badly
miscast as a singer were erased on She & HimÆs ôVolume Oneö in 2008.
With her collaborator, ace guitarist M. Ward, she proffered pristine
pop that suggested the earnest innocence of a young Joni Mitchell or
Jackie DeShannon.
ôVolume Twoö (Merge) picks up where the debut left off. There are no
bold makeovers, but Deschanel sounds a good deal more confident. She
never oversings, instead projecting a conversational purity that puts
the emphasis squarely on the songs. On ôVolume Oneö she sounded very
much like the ingΘnue who learned to sing by belting out radio hits
into a curling iron while facing a bedroom mirror. That innocence
remains, but Deschanel has grown, her voice taking on duskier shades
and taking more chances. Ward has the good sense to present that voice
undisturbed by studio affectations, as if to demonstrate that pop can
still exist outside the world of Auto-Tune.
The album runs the gamut from orchestrated splendor (ôThievesö) to a
cappella melancholy (ôIf You CanÆt Sleepö). In between Deschanel
embraces piano pop, country twang, even a spritz of flamenco
(ôLingering Stillö), while resurrecting the lost NRBQ
shouldÆve-been-hit ôRidinÆ in My Car.ö Her songs do the relationship
waltz with guarded optimism; her voice is tinged by longing, a hint of
anxiety, but it clings to the belief that somehow things are going to
work out. Like its predecessor, ôVolume IIö stands outside current
production trends, and itÆs built to last on its own modest terms.
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