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Scarlett Johansson Can Check "Release An Album" Off Her List Now [The Last Word]
Published 5/20/2008 by Dan Gibson at Idolator
... • "With her low monotone, ScarJo aims for Nico but comes off like Sinéad on sopors—never more so than on the zombielike 'I Don't Wanna Grow Up.' In burying Johansson's vocals so deeply in the druggy ambiance, producer David Andrew Sitek (of TV on the Radio) means well but ends up obscuring Waits' great tunes." [Entertainment Weekly] ...

Scarlett Johansson Tries Hard To Assert Indie Cred With New Album [Critical Mass]
Published 5/20/2008 by Maria Mercedes Lara at Jezebel
... : Most every track filters Waits's sepia-toned, Charles-Bukowski-at-the-circus style dissolute folk through an echo chamber of 1985 shoegazer reverb, with Johansson's possibly quite lovely voice buried underneath, like an afterthought. The end result is strange but not unpleasant. It's like what would happen if Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval decided to release a solo album assembled by a group of carnival barkers and hobos. Entertainment Weekly : Anywhere I Lay My Head, actress Scarlett Johansson's debut CD, is an extravagant act of camouflage: a covers album where the interesting ...

Scarlett Johannson's SoundScan numbers are in, and they're not pretty...
Published 5/29/2008 by Simon Vozick-Levinson at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... I'd say this is evidence that we music critics really do hold some kind of sway over the cultural marketplace, after all, but super-buzz machines like the Ting Tings and the Cool Kids sold even less than Scarlett last week. But hey, who cares about album sales anyway? S.Jo's an artist, man. Someday in a few decades, a kid is going to dig out Anywhere I Lay My Head and shake his or her head at all of us who mocked those growly Waitsisms. Maybe. Or don't you think so? Check out the video below and let us know. ...