She & Him’s “Volume Two”

December 1st, 2009 • By Kelly • Gallery, Interview, She & Him

Zooey & M. Ward recently talked to Paste Magazine about She & Him‘s sophmore album titled “Volume Two”. Paste‘s December/January issue will have more information on the record!

The new album was recorded in Portland and Los Angeles over the past year-and-a-half, and will feature all-new original material penned by actress/chanteuse Zooey Deschanel and produced by M. Ward. “I think that the dark shades that were on the last record are maybe a little bit darker on the new record, and the brighter shades on the last record are a little bit brighter on the new record,” Ward tells Paste. “I think that people are going to hear more contrasts, which is always something that I shoot for in the studio.”

Volume One was essentially recorded in a vacuum free of outside pressure and expectations, an atmosphere that the duo tried to recreate for Volume Two. “I think we approached the second record organically, the same as we did for the first record,” Deschanel tells Paste. “But the songs are different so the record is different. We had a bit more time and resources so we were able to work a little deeper.”

After almost two years of balancing She & Him recording sessions and nationwide touring with their other endeavors (like Ward’s solo work and side-projects including Monsters of Folk, and Deschanel’s recent roles in movies including 500 Days of Summer) the two are still finding new reasons to be excited about their once-seemingly-unlikely musical partnership.

“Zooey writes pretty often and she doesn’t need any sort of encouragement,” Ward says. “What I wanted to do was to show more dimensions to Zooey’s writing, and I’m excited for people to hear the record because I think it’s going to continue to show the strength of her writing.”

Read the rest of the interview here.

HQ stills of Zooey’s appearance on Bones have been added to the gallery, thanks to Britt!

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