Track Listing 1. Relator 2. Wear And Tear 3. I Don't Know What To Do 4. Search Your Heart 5. Blackie's Dead 6. I Am The Cosmos 7. Shampoo 8. Clean 9. Someday
| Details | | Playing Time: | 28 min. | | Producer: | Sunny Levine | | Distributor: | n/a | | Recording Type: | Studio | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: Scarlett Johansson (vocals); Pete Yorn (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, piano, tambourine); Robert Francis (electric guitar, slide guitar, pedal steel guitar, banjo); Max Goldblatt (banjo, bass synthesizer, background vocals); Amir Yaghmai (strings, synthesizer); Sunny Levine (bass synthesizer, programming). Audio Mixer: Sunny Levine. Recording information: Orange Stella Studios, Venice, CA. Photographer: Jim Wright. Pete Yorn recorded BREAK UPin 2006 on the heels of one, but it sat on the shelf until 2009, appearing just a matter of months after BACK & FORTH, 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 covers 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 indie actress 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.
Editorial Reviews Sunny Levine's production keeps the album ticking, with clean acoustic riffs and piano keys only enhancing both vocal performances. Billboard
3.5 stars out of 5 -- [Johansson] sounds more in her element on this one, starting off strong with the bittersweet bounce of 'Relator.' Alternative Press
Johansson's throaty vocals fit BREAK UP's intimate vibe better than they did on her overly ambitious Tom Waits-covers album. -- Grade: B- Entertainment Weekly
[T]he eight songs Yorn has written for this album are among his best -- the kind of thoughtful, catchy heartache pop at which he excels. Paste
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