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Dec 23, 2014The album is a holiday classic in waiting, even if you don’t own a single pair of skinny jeans and couldn’t grow a beard to save your life.
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Dec 9, 2014She & Him, the duo of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, cover a lot of ground here, rendering each song with warmth and radiance.
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Dec 8, 2014Classics is meant to be pure entertainment and even though most of these songs have been sung before by a variety of other artists, in the hands of She & Him, it comes off less like a novelty and instead sits very comfortably in their growing catalog of fine releases.
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Dec 9, 2014Classics presents these songs faithfully and inoffensively, and She & Him cover them with the best of intentions.
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Dec 3, 2014Things get a little dicier when they dip into the ’60s, as Deschanel doesn’t have the pipes to match up with the likes of Maxine Brown and Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers.... Throughout the rest of Classics, though, Deschanel is a delight, at times coy and romantic, and in other moments, moody and pensive.
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Dec 2, 2014Considering the fact that classics on Classics have already been rendered hundreds of times by some of the most legendary musicians and singers of the last century, Deschanel and Ward's versions are surprisingly engaging.
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Dec 2, 2014Some of the ramshackle charm that pervaded their Christmas record is missing here too--the major label money and the massive orchestra having presumably buffed the edges, which feels a shame. Still, all in, it’s a hard heart that dismisses a solid record of wonderful songs done well.
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Dec 2, 2014Classics is charming and sleepy in a '60s samba sort of way, filled with whispering percussion, light electric guitar solos, and string arrangements worthy of the silver screen.
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Dec 8, 2014The album is classy and appealing, and although it’s not particularly challenging, it’s still a lot more than just background music.
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Dec 5, 2014This is an album that's holiday-ready: safe, inoffensive, pretty grandma music.
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Dec 3, 2014Ultimately despite, or perhaps because of, its minor ambitions, Classics succeeds on its own terms.
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Dec 2, 2014The surprisingly loungy results are unusually daring for these two.
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Dec 2, 2014Losing something in translation is the potential downside of interpreting beloved standards, and while She & Him are lovingly faithful performers, Classics ends up as just pleasant background music.
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Dec 22, 2014The problem with Classics, then, is that they call attention to the bleeding sincerity of that bygone era without being able to quite do it justice.
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Dec 15, 2014‘Stay Awhile’ and renditions of The Righteous Brothers’ ‘Unchained Melody’ and the Burt Bacharach and Hal David-penned ‘This Girl’s In Love With You’ are stunning in isolation. A whole album of Deschanel’s wholesome, entertaining-the-troops voice and M Ward’s tasteful instrumentation is cloying.
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Dec 8, 2014Throughout the album, there’s a sense they’re just playing around.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 22
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Mixed: 1 out of 22
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Negative: 3 out of 22
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Sep 5, 2018Probably one of my favorite albums ever. I want this to play on the day of my marriage.
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Jul 1, 2015
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Dec 8, 2014