This is an interesting one: Zooey Deschanel, lead actress from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the more recent (500) Days of Summer, teams up with musician M Ward to from a band called She & Him.
They met on the set of The Go-Getter,sang together, and the ball kind of rolled from there. Deschanel writes and sings, Ward plays guitar and does the production.
All of the songs I've heard have that well constructed, layered sound from a typical M Ward song, but the bright vocals of Deschanel are a pretty sharp contrast from a typical M Ward vocal.
You can check out a live version of the song here; it looks like they tour with a well-versed backup band that helps with a lot of the harmonies heard on the record. Here's a slower tune on something called MTV Canada, which I didn't know existed.
They are playing an impressive set of festivals: South by Southwest, Coachella, Bonnaroo, and Sasquatch. Merge Records has the rest of the tour.
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