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Break Up | 
| Artists: Pete Yorn, Scarlett Johansson
Label: Rhino Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 75980
Media: Vinyl
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 12.5 x 12.4 x 0.1
UPC: 081227986605
EAN: 0081227986605
ASIN: B002H3ET64
Release Date: August 31, 2009
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| Tracks:
| • | Relator | | • | Wear And Tear | | • | I Don't Know What To Do | | • | Search Your Heart | | • | Blackie's Dead | | • | I Am The Cosmos | | • | Shampoo | | • | Clean | | • | Someday |
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Album Description
Born out of the deep sleep that can only follow weeks of insomnia, Pete Yorn awoke to find BREAK UP, and its concept of two lovers vocalizing their relationship, fully formed in his head. Taking inspiration from Serge Gainsbourg's collaborations with Brigitte Bardot, Yorn and Scarlett Johansson headed to the studio, with Sunny Levine in the production booth and Yorn and Max Goldblatt serving as executive producers. The album also features contributions from guitarist Robert Francis, bassist Giuseppe Patane, violinist Amir Yaghmai, with Goldblatt on banjo, synth bass and backing vocals, and Levine handling programming and mixing. Comprised of eight songs written and arranged by Yorn and one cover, BREAK UP embarks on a musical journey that covers all bases from lovers lost in gravelly exit song "Someday" to lovers scorned in the questioning "Search Your Heart." Johansson's raspy voice lends a retro feel to the poppy opening track "Relator," playfully complementing Yorn's choruses and setting the tone for the rest of the album's side-by-side vocals. Standout tracks include banjo-driven "Wear And Tear," reminiscent of Pete's early solo efforts, the big band-esque "I Don't Know What To Do," and a shimmering interpretation of the art-rock class "I Am The Cosmos" by the late Chris Bell, co-founder of quintessential cult band Big Star.
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 A very enjoyable pop album, where Pete and Scarlett shine. January 1, 2010
fritto misto cum jazz
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
The duet album "Break Up" was recorded in 2006, two years before Johansson's official debut Anywhere I Lay My Head, which got mixed reactions, and was regarded as the ambitious young Hollywood starlet's amateurish vanity project.
On this album, which reflects on a relationship falling apart, she teams up with New Jersey pop singer-songwriter Pete Yorn: their goal is to capture Serge Gainsbourg's recordings with Brigitte Bardot.
Yorn and Johansson sing together on each of Break Up's nine tracks, offering a musical account of the beginning, middle and end of a tormented love-affair. The songs - Yorn told USA Today - were in fact recorded two years before "Anywhere I Lay My Head" - and Johansson recorded her parts in just two afternoon sessions.
What's in it for the duo to have this shelved artefact brought to light now? Johansson says "I always thought of it as just a small project between friends, but it perfectly captures where I was in my life at the time".
Though Pete said the album's concept came to him in a dream, its musical inspiration is precise: Serge Gainsbourg's 1967 and 1968 albums with Brigitte Bardot. But while Gainsbourg was a notorious Gallic sexpot, Yorn is just a rugged "indie-dreamboat" from New Jersey.
Instead of the sensuality of Gainsbourg and Bardot, Yorn offers a chugging mid-tempo rock song - with Johannson's voice resembling that of Amy Winehouse: despite the foxiness of Johannson's vocals, their duets are less steamy.
Still, this is a tuneful and convincing collection of guitar pop embellished with likeable country and folk influences.
Eight of Break Up's songs were written by Yorn, one by Big Star's Chris Bell, and all were produced by Quincy Jones's grandson Sunny Levine. A brief nine-song fling, this compact and bijou collaboration works worst when it's overreaching itself - a slightly pointless cover version of Chris (Big Star) Bell's "I Am the Cosmos" - and best when it keeps things understated (the Yorn-penned "Clean", which finds the pair declaring "Would you talk to me?/ I want everything to be so clean").
Johansson has yet to fully find her own voice, and instead employs a smoky Winehouse twang, but it meshes nicely with Yorn's laid-back drawl and breathy falsetto.
All in all, this is not a masterpiece, but certainly it is a good, mellow album where a young, brilliant actress teams up with a run-of-the-mill talented American pop singer-songwriter, whose flimsy voice is no match for her ...Billie Holiday/Amy Winehouse-esque tones: the results are some very enjoyable pop songs.
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 Freaking Awesome! October 19, 2009
BTrain (Pioneer Square)
11 out of 16 found this review helpful
Ok, admittedly this music is very mellow and is stuff you might put on a playlist with a name like "Alone in the Dark," "Struck Out at the Bar Last Night" or "Just Got Dumped." For the kind of music it is I think this CD (or whatever you call a group of songs these days) is great. The only songs I don't really like too much are the "Blackie's Dead" songs since they don't quite seem to fit with the rest of the music for some reason. Song like "I am the Cosmos" are awesome though.
When I originally bought this I had some trepidation about Scarlett Johansen and her vocals on these tracks but they blend very well with the type of music it is. Her voice is much better than I expected but she still doesn't show that she has a very powerful voice like a Broadway singer or anything but, the cool thing, is that she didn't need to on any of these songs and for what she needed to do her voice worked very well.
Check out the songs and grab it you feel like you need some new kind of mellow music and don't be afraid of an actress trying to sing in this case.
Fantastic! November 18, 2009
H. Fillman
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a great CD! I have not been able to stop listening to it repeatedly! If you like Pete Yorn or the SHe & Him kindof sound you will love this CD
Surprisingly Awesome. November 14, 2009
A. Pack
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This CD was the 'CD deal of the day' awhile back, so I got it. And I wasn't really expecting much. But then I listened to the album and it just blew me away. It's surprisingly very good. It's not super long. Both of the artists voices work very well together. I really enjoy it. Definitely one of my most listened to CDs right now. Totally worth buying. A couple of my favorite tracks are Relator, Wear and Tear, and I Don't Know What To Do.
Love Love February 6, 2010
E. Simpson (Chicago, IL)
Love this album. Scarlett has that retro 50's sound to her voice and Pete Yorn can do no wrong.
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