Dandy Album Review: Norah Jones- Little Broken Hearts

Jazz sensation Norah Jones has shocked the music community and her loyal fans with her latest album Little Broken Hearts. Enlisting electronic, hip-hop, alternative rock producer Brain Burton, as know as Danger Mouse to produce this project proves to be a risky but successful feat. Burton is best known for his collaboration with Cee Lo Green and the two of them forming the Grammy Award winning group Gnarls Barkley. Both Jones and Burton have joined their creative forces together to write and produce her new album, and the result is a unique blend of indie rock with an electronic country blues sound. Little Broken Hearts is vastly different from any other Norah Jones album and could be seen as the artist best work to date. Though the new album has a dramatically different commercial appeal to it, it proves to be her most in-depth and honest album yet. Drawing from the actual heartache from her resent breakup, Jones dives deeply into her emotions and thoughts. 

The albums cover art is based off a movie poster from the 1965 film by Russ Myers, Mudhoney that hung over a couch in Burtons recording studio. The sound on Little Broken Hearts definitely provides a nostalgic feeling that could fit in a 60/70's action movie. Norah Jone's Little Broken Hearts proves that sometimes it pays off to take chances, and when you turn your pain into passion it can open you up in ways you might not have imagined.

Standout tracks are:

Good Morning
Mariam
Say Good Bye
Happy Pills
After The Fall