{"id":9821,"date":"2013-05-08T10:22:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9821"},"modified":"2013-05-08T10:22:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:22:23","slug":"she-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/she-him\/","title":{"rendered":"SHE &#038; HIM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9822\" alt=\"She-and-Him-M-Review-No26\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/She-and-Him-M-Review-No26.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/She-and-Him-M-Review-No26.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/She-and-Him-M-Review-No26-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>SHE &amp; HIM<\/h1>\n<p><b><i>Volume 3<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Merge]<\/p>\n<p>She &amp; Him\u2014vocalist Zooey Deschanel and producer\/guitarist M. Ward\u2014concoct a vibrant spirit on this charming, if kitschy, collection of\u00a0lo-fi psychedelic pop. Deschanel wrote 11 of the 14 songs, most of which deal with the hardships of new love. Her roll-with-the-punches performance, full of innocent sighs and moody expressions, throbs with ache. On \u201cLondon,\u201d an abstract, hypnotic piano ballad, she adds shades of melancholy over overwrought verses. She glides atop a bed of strings on \u201cShadow of Love,\u201d her plaintive cry sounding the death knell of her California dreams. She\u2019s better at presenting love as a staggering challenge than as a stumbling block, and she\u2019d do well to knock off the mock threats (\u201cI\u2019ve Got Your Number, Son,\u201d \u201cI Could\u2019ve Been Your Girl\u201d). Her affected vocals, dripping with self-pity, are far too eccentric for less world-weary material. Ward wisely offsets these cheerier impulses with dense, sweeping arrangements, using airy drums and purring guitars to cast an ominous haze. \u2013Blake Boldt<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHE &amp; HIM Volume 3 [Merge] She &amp; Him\u2014vocalist Zooey Deschanel and producer\/guitarist M. Ward\u2014concoct a vibrant spirit on this charming, if kitschy, collection of\u00a0lo-fi psychedelic pop. Deschanel wrote 11 of the 14 songs, most of which deal with the hardships of new love. Her roll-with-the-punches performance, full of innocent sighs and moody expressions, throbs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,552,6467,6529,6530],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9825,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821\/revisions\/9825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}