• Volume Two
• 歌手：She And Him
• 語種：英语
• 時間：2010年03月
• 公司：Merge

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• 歌手所有歌曲

Any lingering doubts that Zooey Deschanel was just a fine actress badly
miscast as a singer were erased on She & Hims Volume One 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

Volume Two (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 Volume One she sounded very
much like the ingnue 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 AutoTune

The album runs the gamut from orchestrated splendor (Thieves) to a
cappella melancholy (If You Cant Sleep). In between Deschanel
embraces piano pop, country twang, even a spritz of flamenco
(Lingering Still), while resurrecting the lost NRBQ
shouldvebeenhit Ridin in My Car. 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, Volume II stands outside current
production trends, and its built to last on its own modest terms

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