Little Broken Hearts by Norah Jones
Little Broken Hearts (stylized as ...Little Broken Hearts) is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Norah Jones, released on April 25, 2012 by Blue Note Records. This is Jones' first release since 2009's The Fall. The album is produced by Brian Burton, better known as Danger Mouse, who is notable for his production work with The Black Keys, Gnarls Barkley, and Beck among others. On April 15, the entire album streamed online on NPR. The album has sold 741,000 copies so far. The leading single of the album was "Happy Pills", released digitally on March 6, 2012 which debuted at 46 in US Billboard Rock Songs and 15 in US Billboard Adult Contemporary and received mostly positive reviews. It tells the story of Jones emancipating herself from a relationship and finding that she is better off alone.
When Norah Jones began covering Wilco’s “Jesus, Etc.” live, it was a signpost: just as “America’s greatest band” has transformed from alternative country heroes to renowned rock experimentalists, so too has the singer/songwriter morphed from piano-based acoustic jazz/folk crooner to guitar-playing alternative pop vocalist. On her fifth album, she cowrote songs with Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton, who produced the sessions at his Los Angeles studio. Having first worked together on <i>Rome</i> (his and Daniele Luppi’s ode to Italian cinematic music), Jones and Burton recorded all the vocal and instrumental tracks themselves before bringing in supplemental musicians like drummer Joey Waronker (Beck, Air) and Sonus Quartet. From the hypnotically unsettling “Good Morning” to the plaintive single “Happy Pills” and the blissfully hazy “All a Dream,” <i>Little Broken Hearts</i> is a new type of chillout album for an artist previously known for her warm, comforting sounds.
