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Break Up | 
| Artists: Pete Yorn, Scarlett Johansson
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 2432
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.2
MPN: 511166
UPC: 081227992422
EAN: 0081227992422
ASIN: B002AOWXO0
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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
2009 collaboration between the singer/songwriter and actress/vocalist. Includes eight original compositions by Pete/Scarlett in the spirit of Serge Gainsbourg's recording with Brigitte Bardot. The album re-enacts the tempestuous course of a love affair on the rocks. The album had its genesis in the aftermath of a breakup in 2006. After Yorn was unable to sleep for a week, he finally dozed off, only to wake with a start just minutes later. What had awakened him was a dream. "I sat up in bed, and the whole thing was in my head, fully formed," Yorn says, sounding as if he still doesn't quite believe it. "I suddenly felt like I really needed to make a record in the style of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot. Not that it had to sound like that, but it had to be a guy-and-girl conceptual thing. So then I asked myself, 'Who's Brigitte Bardot today? It's Scarlett Johansson.'" Featuring an interpretation of the classic 'I Am the Cosmos' by the late Chris Bell co-founder of Big Star.
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 A Really Nice Surprise March 8, 2010
Brad
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
holy crap! it's nice to be surprised by an album, and this is one of those times. Pete Yorn has always been a solid performer, but this collaboration between Scarlett is way better than I ever would have thought. She has a real smokey jazz-singer vibe here, which, mixed with Yorn's contemporary indie songwriting, produces something really unique.
This album is short, but easily some of the better music of 2009. I will be looking out for Scarlett's work in the future.
Happy breakup music February 18, 2010
Teresa Roland (SYCAMORE, IL, US)
Love it!!!! They compliment eachother greatly, so very happy upbeat music with an old twist!
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.
 A very enjoyable pop album, where Pete and Scarlett shine. January 1, 2010
fritto misto cum jazz
12 out of 12 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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Break Up December 23, 2009
Third Eye (New Zealand)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Exactly. I got this at the same time as She and Him which I would also place in my surprise top 20 of 2009. This brief album grows on you. Pete Yorn is, typically, excellent. The wonderful Scarlett has a much better go at music than her Tom Waits cover album. Don't get me wrong, I love it but this album shows she really can turn a good song into something quite special. Well worth the great price if you think this appeals. And if you haven't got Volume 1 She and Him yet...get it!
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