She and Him: Volume Two | Cd review

(Double Six)Film star turned singer Zooey Deschanel is hardly the first person to pay homage to the 1960s girl group sound; she might, however, be unique in calling to mind one of the era's lesser talents, Noreen Corcoran, herself an actor, whose dabblings in pop resulted in the silly but rather wonderful ditty Love Kitten. Deschanel's second album is similarly no masterpiece: her voice is sweet but thin, her lyrics float by, musing on love in a language occasionally erudite (mentions of Orpheus...

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