{"id":1315,"date":"2008-03-24T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-28T22:10:50","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T22:10:50","slug":"she-and-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/she-and-him\/","title":{"rendered":"She & Him"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A lot of rock nerds go ga-ga over M. Ward<\/strong>. A friend burned me one of his albums and I’ve heard some other songs by him. His stuff’s nice enough, but he’s a little too low-key for my day-to-day tastes. <\/p>\n

A lot of rock nerds probably go ga-ga over Zooey Deschanel<\/strong> as well, probably for reasons slightly beyond her smokey singing performance in the shower scene in Elf<\/em>, but not altogether unrelated. She’s cute!<\/p>\n

If you haven’t heard, M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel have teamed up for an album called Volume One<\/a><\/em>, under the name She & Him<\/strong>. There’s much being made about their love for ’60s AM pop, Phil Spector<\/strong>, Carole King<\/strong>, Dusty Springfield<\/strong>, and so forth. I’m down with all that stuff myself, as down with all that as I am the cuteness of Ms. Deschanel, so I picked up this album. <\/p>\n

I’ve just started listening to it, but so far so good. They even do a couple of dreamy\/country Beatles<\/strong> covers, which will be good for passing around with my fellow Beatles fanboy friends. Deschanel’s voice works for me, and Ward’s work behind the scenes hits the right buttons. What I like best about this stuff, though, is when it gets into the West Coast AM pop sound. Check out these examples.<\/p>\n

She & Him, “Sentimental Heart”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

She & Him, “This Is Not a Test”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope there’s a Volume Two<\/em>, and I’d suggest they keep exploring that West Coast pop sound. If Cat Power<\/strong> doesn’t beat her to the punch, I think Deschanel’s got a chance become the next…
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A lot of rock nerds go ga-ga over M. Ward. A friend burned me one of his albums and I’ve heard some other songs by him. His stuff’s nice enough, but he’s a little too low-key for my day-to-day tastes. A lot of rock nerds probably go ga-ga over Zooey Deschanel as well, probably for […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}