A Very She & Him Christmas | ||||
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Studio album by She & Him | ||||
Released | October 24, 2011 | |||
Recorded | 2011 | |||
Studio |
Kingsize Soundlabs (Los Angeles, California) The Magic Shop (New York City, New York) |
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Genre | Jazz, R&B | |||
Length | 32:05 | |||
Label | Merge | |||
Producer | M. Ward | |||
She & Him chronology | ||||
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Professional ratings | |
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Aggregate scores | |
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 63/100 |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Entertainment Weekly | B |
Pitchfork | (5.3/10) |
PopMatters | |
Under the Radar | |
NME |
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, 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.
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.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received a score of 63, based on 16 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
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." A more mixed review from Pitchfork said that the songs were "just fine" but that She & Him "played this one too safe."