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'Relator' aside, there's little about this duo's chemistry that lives up to Matt and Kim, let alone Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra.
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Yorn and Johannson cut their album long before She & Him, but surfacing in its wake, they can't help but seem a bit like the polished, polite answer to the twee, precious charms of Zooey & M. Ward. Break Up does trump Vol. 1 conceptually, chronicling the dissolution of a romance as a series of duets, and Scarlett is a more-than-worthy foil to Yorn.
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There’s a mopey, self-pitying quality to the lyrics, and the duo never once connect with or transmit the sultry passion that existed between those 60s icons [Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot].
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Break Up's nine songs have plenty of sweet harmonies, but there's just no sexual chemistry between these two friends.
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Eliminate the stilted pursuit of Artistry oozing out of the cracks here, and ignore the notion that there’s some sort of emphasis on an unraveling journey-through-song, and Break Up is actually a pleasant enough detour as a light-hearted, retro-pop affair.
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Mostly, the record suffers from the same symptoms most flings do: In time, the dreaminess dissipates, leaving those involved searching for something with a little more weight to it.
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MojoThere's an absence of audible heat, no palpable anguish or tantrums. [Oct 2009. p.108]
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Q MagazineChalk this one down purely to an arrangement of Tinseltown convenience. [Oct 2009, p.115]
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It is entirely listenable, but this sort of album suggests the power to either break or fortify hearts. To that extent, it does not follow through.
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HelenJeSep 20, 2009
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RichieF.Sep 19, 2009
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AnieRSep 19, 2009I feel all the way that gainsbourg spirit on this album. really great i love so much the deepful voice of Miss Johansson.