Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn have become unlikely partners in a new project, an album titled Break Up, apparently inspired by the duets of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot. This isn’t your father’s “Bonnie and Clyde”, though, judging by the first single, “Relator,” which borrows a bit from the Beatles’ “All My Loving.”
The album, recorded two years before Johansson released her first album of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head, “form[s] a song cycle that chronicles a tempestuous affair,” as USA Today describes it (via Pitchfork).
“Relator” is streaming on the album website; Break Up is “moving out” on September 8.