Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - Break Up reviews
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| Pastemagazine |
 I hated Scarlett Johansson’s Dave Sitek-produced Tom Waits covers album, Anywhere I Lay My Head. I just didn’t understand what she brought to the project—she wasn’t writing the songs, she wasn’t playing the music, and her dispassionate vocals were so buried under a thick haze of sound effects that they added virtually nothing to the nothing she’d already contributed.
As it turns out, Johansson is far better suited to the more straightforward, less experimental, alt-country-tinged electro-folk environs of this new Pete Yorn collaboration. Though the vocal effects reappear on Break Up, they provide less of a mask here, giving Johansson’s sultry voice a chance to shine. And the eight songs Yorn has written for this album are among his best—the kind of thoughtful, catchy heartache pop at which he excels. Between Yorn’s ingratiating tunes, Johansson’s harmonies and the lush, inventive production, Break Up ultimately succeeds in its ambitious goal of capturing the spirit—if not the sound—of the late-’60s musical partnership between Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot....full text |
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| Ew |
| singer-songwriter in mildly rocking duet partnership? We've seen it before, of course, with She & Him, a.k.a. Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward. That duo had its fizzy retro charms; the most entertaining thing about this collaboration is conjuring obnoxious nickname combos: Scar-Yo! Jo-Yorn-sson! Pe-lett! Johansson's throaty vocals fit Break Up's intimate vibe better than they did on her overly ambitious Tom Waits-covers album. Still, aside from the jangle 'n' twang ditty ''Relator'' and remake of Chris Bell's classic ''I Am the Cosmos,'' the project never really achieves liftoff. B–...full text |
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| Allmusic |
| Pete Yorn recorded Break Up in 2006 on the heels of one, but it sat on the shelf until 2009, appearing just a matter of months after Back & Fourth, and a year after his duet partner, Scarlett Johannson, cast as Brigitte Bardot to Yorn's Serge Gainsbourg, made an awkwardly arty splash with a Tom Waits' cover album, but the album that really casts a shadow over this is Vol. 1, the 2008 record by She & Him, the teaming of M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel. 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. If anything, her hushed, husky voice -- showcased better here than on her own debut -- is a greater presence than his self-pity. In this tasteful context, it's easy to hear why he pines after her but not so clear what she ever saw in him in the first place....full text |
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