Luckily, fellow Hollywood star Zooey Deschanel has taken a more successful route. Freed of the crippling need to appear hip that seemingly sunk Johannson's effort, Deschanel has simply recorded her own starkly lovely folk-pop nuggets, collaborated with respected indie-folk singer-songwriter M Ward and released a low-key album entitled Volume 1.

The results are rather delightful - This Is Not A Test skips along nicely, with acoustic guitar, harmonies and even the sound of M Ward doing a vocal impersonation of a trumpet, and a chorus that you'll be whistling for weeks. It's not particularly cutting-edge, and any wannabe hipsters will probably turn up their nose at it. Which, let's face it, is no bad thing.<;p>

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