A Very She & Him Christmas

A Very She & Him Christmas
Studio album by She & Him
Released October 24, 2011 (2011-10-24)
Recorded 2011
Kingsize Soundlabs
(Los Angeles, California)
The Magic Shop
(New York City, New York)
Genre Jazz, R&B
Length 32:05
Label Merge
Producer M. Ward
She & Him chronology
Volume Two
(2010)
A Very She & Him Christmas
(2011)
Volume 3
(2013)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Entertainment WeeklyB [1]
Pitchfork Media(5.3/10) [2]
PopMatters [3]
Under the Radar [4]
NME[5]

A Very She & Him Christmas is the first Christmas album and the third studio album by the folk/indie rock band She & Him, consisting of actress and musician Zooey Deschanel and musician M. Ward. The album was released on October 24, 2011,[6] and features several covers of classic holiday songs. The twelve track album is distributed by Merge Records and proceeds from every album sold are being donated to 826 National, a nonprofit network of writing and tutoring centers.[7]

Their cover of "I'll Be Home for Christmas" was featured in the Christmas episode "The 23rd" of the TV-show New Girl, which stars Zooey Deschanel.

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received a score of 64, based on 8 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[8]

PopMatters gave the album a score of 7/10, writing that it was "plain beautiful" and that it was "a calm, simple and easy to listen to recording to sit with and relax."[3] A more mixed review from Pitchfork Media said that the songs were "just fine" but that She & Him "played this one too safe."[2]

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "The Christmas Waltz"  Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne 2:37
2. "Christmas Day"  Brian Wilson 3:24
3. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"  Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin 3:42
4. "I'll Be Home for Christmas"  Walter Kent, Kim Gannon, Buck Ram 2:26
5. "Christmas Wish"  Joey Spampinato 2:58
6. "Sleigh Ride"  Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish 2:44
7. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"  Johnny Marks 2:00
8. "Silver Bells"  Jay Livingston, Ray Evans 1:57
9. "Baby, It's Cold Outside"  Frank Loesser 2:17
10. "Blue Christmas"  Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson 3:24
11. "Little Saint Nick"  Wilson, Mike Love 2:10
12. "The Christmas Song"  Bob Wells, Mel Tormé 2:26

Personnel

She & Him
Additional personnel

References

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