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MUSIC GIFT GUIDE

Our pick for holiday music: She & Him

By James Reed

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 25, 2011

Zooey Deschanel has exactly the kind of voice you want to hear singing Christmas music: warm, cozy, and just a wee bit coy. You get the feeling she’s winking her way through ”A Very She & Him Christmas,” which is about as breezy and quaint as holiday albums come. As half of the indie-pop duo She & Him, Deschanel plays the doe-eyed sweetheart to M. Ward’s straight man. That chemistry works well on their new album and suits their featherweight treatments of Christmas chestnuts.

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