Little Broken Hearts | ||||
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Studio album by Norah Jones | ||||
Released | April 25, 2012 | |||
Recorded | 2011 | |||
Studio | Mondo Studio, Electro Vox Studios (Los Angeles, California) |
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Genre | Indie popRoots rock Folk Rock | |||
Length | 44:54 | |||
Label | Blue Note | |||
Producer | Danger Mouse | |||
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Singles from Little Broken Hearts | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 69/100 |
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BBC Music | favorable |
The Daily Telegraph | |
Entertainment Weekly | B |
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Spin | 8/10 |
Little Broken Hearts (stylized as ...Little Broken Hearts) is the fifth solo studio album by American singer and songwriter Norah Jones, released on April 25, 2012, through Blue Note Records. The album was 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.
"Happy Pills" was released as the album's lead single on March 6, 2012. It reached No. 13 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart and No. 44 on the Hot Rock Songs chart. The second single, "Miriam", was released on July 25, 2012, and peaked at No. 82 on the Japan Hot 100.
In 2009, Jones and Burton jammed in the Gnarls Barkley producer's Los Angeles studio to begin work on a project about which nobody knew. They spent five days together in June 2009, working on what would eventually become Jones' fifth solo album. The sessions were fruitful, but neither of them were quite satisfied. They spent the next two years working separately on other projects: she completed her fourth studio album The Fall, recorded another album with her old Alternative Country band mates the Little Willies, which turned to For the Good Times. Burton started a new project Broken Bells with James Mercer, spending some time in studio with U2 and working on their 13th studio album and produced The Black Keys seventh studio album, El Camino. The duo previously collaborated on the 2011 album Rome, on which she contributed vocals to the tracks "Season's Trees", "Black" and "Problem Queen". Soon after the project was completed, the two headed into the studio again to work on her fifth album.