Sweet music. Even sweeter Zooey. Ahhh.
As actors-turned-singers albums go this is pretty sharp. It's not trying to be something so new and cutting edge that it faces ridicule or failure in any great way. She & Him - the aforementioned Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward hook up again to give indie pop-folk another airing following their successful first collab back in 2007.
What Volume 2 brings is a sense of comfortableness (not boring) and tradition, some of the cover choices for instance, that give the listener a ward fuzzy glow. You can pick out some tunes here and they'd happily sit on the soundtrack of a Zooey film with just the correct amount of twee-irony-wonky humour whatever...but the truth is these simple ditties are a breath of fresh air in otherwise cynical world.
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