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Track List
01) Sentimental Heart
02) Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
03) This Is Not a Test
04) Change Is Hard
05) I Thought I Saw Your Face Today
06) Take It Back
07) I Was Made for You
08) You Really Got a Hold on Me
09) Black Hole
10) Got Me
11) I Should Have Known Better
12) Sweet Darlin'
13) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
01) Sentimental Heart
02) Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
03) This Is Not a Test
04) Change Is Hard
05) I Thought I Saw Your Face Today
06) Take It Back
07) I Was Made for You
08) You Really Got a Hold on Me
09) Black Hole
10) Got Me
11) I Should Have Known Better
12) Sweet Darlin'
13) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
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First Released
2008
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Volume One is the first album by She & Him, a collaboration between M. Ward and actress Zooey Deschanel. It was released by Merge Records on March 18, 2008.
The album debuted at #81 on the Billboard Charts in its first week, and climbed to #71 in its second week. It has received a strong response from critics, receiving a score of 76/100 on MetaCritic, indicating overall positive reviews. It was also voted the #1 Album of 2008 by Paste Magazine. It came 30th in the 2008 Pazz and Jop poll. Volume One has sold 176,000 copies to date in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan and Billboard Brazil.
The song "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?" was number 64 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008 and two different music videos of it were produced. The first video featured Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward in a semi-animated enactment released in 2008. The second video, released in 2009, was a collaboration of talent from the film (500) Days of Summer, including co-stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt with director Marc Webb, choreographer Michael Rooney, and producer Mason Novick.
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The origins of this album sound like a Hollywood romcom. LA actress, Zooey Deschanel - with a clutch of promising cinematic roles to her credit - writes songs in her spare time but keeps them to herself. When guitarist and maverick producer, M. Ward hears her tunes, he declares his love of them and promptly proposes they make sweet music together.
Whilst that story may just be PR puff, it's entirely consistent with the combination of 60s girl group clamour and wistful bygone balladry that makes up the album. All the ups and downs of young romance are faithfully recreated in loving fidelity and a variety of styles to evoke that teary-eyed yesteryear pop ambience. Carole King's It Might As Well Rain Until September appears to be a pervasive template as do other Brill Building / Tin Pan Alley showtunes.
There's also a fair amount of endearingly kooky humour in the act. This Is Not A Test boasts a parping pursed-lips trumpet solo, whilst on a swooning lounge-style cover of Lennon & McCartney's I Should Have Known Better, Deschanel can be heard giggling off-mic as Ward's lugubrious voice hams up the chorus.
Got Me and the Nick Lowe-ish, Change Is Hard, are shot through with torch song stoicism and oodles of pedal steel guitar that glisten and drip from many other finely-honed chord changes and middle eights. Sure it's light and frothy but it's also impressively graceful in its construction; light on its feet without being lightweight.
Karen Carpenter, KD Lang, Barbara Lewis and others are skilfully conjured but that shouldn't deflect from the fact that Deschanel's warm and affable vocals work really well in their own right. Now that her secret songs are no longer a guilty pleasure, it would be a perfect Hollywood ending for She & Him if Volume One was a summer hit.
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Volume One is the first album by She & Him, a collaboration between M. Ward and actress Zooey Deschanel. It was released by Merge Records on March 18, 2008.
The album debuted at #81 on the Billboard Charts in its first week, and climbed to #71 in its second week. It has received a strong response from critics, receiving a score of 76/100 on MetaCritic, indicating overall positive reviews. It was also voted the #1 Album of 2008 by Paste Magazine. It came 30th in the 2008 Pazz and Jop poll. Volume One has sold 176,000 copies to date in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan and Billboard Brazil.
The song "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?" was number 64 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008 and two different music videos of it were produced. The first video featured Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward in a semi-animated enactment released in 2008. The second video, released in 2009, was a collaboration of talent from the film (500) Days of Summer, including co-stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt with director Marc Webb, choreographer Michael Rooney, and producer Mason Novick.
User Album Review
The origins of this album sound like a Hollywood romcom. LA actress, Zooey Deschanel - with a clutch of promising cinematic roles to her credit - writes songs in her spare time but keeps them to herself. When guitarist and maverick producer, M. Ward hears her tunes, he declares his love of them and promptly proposes they make sweet music together.
Whilst that story may just be PR puff, it's entirely consistent with the combination of 60s girl group clamour and wistful bygone balladry that makes up the album. All the ups and downs of young romance are faithfully recreated in loving fidelity and a variety of styles to evoke that teary-eyed yesteryear pop ambience. Carole King's It Might As Well Rain Until September appears to be a pervasive template as do other Brill Building / Tin Pan Alley showtunes.
There's also a fair amount of endearingly kooky humour in the act. This Is Not A Test boasts a parping pursed-lips trumpet solo, whilst on a swooning lounge-style cover of Lennon & McCartney's I Should Have Known Better, Deschanel can be heard giggling off-mic as Ward's lugubrious voice hams up the chorus.
Got Me and the Nick Lowe-ish, Change Is Hard, are shot through with torch song stoicism and oodles of pedal steel guitar that glisten and drip from many other finely-honed chord changes and middle eights. Sure it's light and frothy but it's also impressively graceful in its construction; light on its feet without being lightweight.
Karen Carpenter, KD Lang, Barbara Lewis and others are skilfully conjured but that shouldn't deflect from the fact that Deschanel's warm and affable vocals work really well in their own right. Now that her secret songs are no longer a guilty pleasure, it would be a perfect Hollywood ending for She & Him if Volume One was a summer hit.
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