“LITTLE BROKEN HEARTS” BECOMES “THE SECOND ESSENTIAL RECORD OF NORAH JONES’ CAREER”
Norah Jones "Little Brken Hearts" Blue Note/EMI Music
Norah Jones’ new album Little Broken Hearts (Blue Note/EMI) had recently debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, also landing at #1 on the Top Internet Albums and Current Rock Albums charts. Little Broken Hearts—which has been receiving the best critical response of Jones’ storied career—sold 110,000 units across all formats in the U.S. in its debut week according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album also made Top 5 debuts in 14 countries around the world including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, and the UK, as well as six #1 debuts in Austria, Belgium, France, Japan, Switzerland, and Taiwan.
An additional run of U.S. tour dates in October have also been announced, with on sale dates for tickets beginning this Friday, May 11. The 12-date run will launch from Minneapolis on October 7 and will cover the Midwest (including a stop in Chicago on October 9) and Texas with shows in Houston (October 20) and Dallas (October 22) before concluding with a concert at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre in New Orleans on October 23. See below for a full list of tour dates or visit www.norahjones.com for ticketing details.
Little Broken Hearts—which was produced and co-written by Danger Mouse—has been receiving unanimous praise from critics across the board. SPIN magazine called it “the second essential record of Norah Jones’ career,” while a cover story in MAGNET magazine declared that “she just might have made the album of the year.” Jones has been the subject of profiles in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Associated Press, and on NPR Morning Edition. She has also made a series of TV appearances including performances on CBS Late Show With David Letterman and ABC Good Morning America. Other release events have included everything from a secret taping for PBS Live from the Artists Den in Brooklyn (for a concert special to air later this year) to a listening event hosted by Bowers & Wilkins that interpreted Little Broken Hearts through an experimental puppet performance by the ClockWorks Puppet Theater.
Blue Note has also marked the release of Jones’ new album by reissuing her entire catalog (Come Away With Me, Feels Like Home, Not Too Late, The Fall, and Little Broken Hearts) in an array of higher fidelity editions. All five of her albums have been Mastered for iTunes specifically with the iTunes and iOS platform in mind, ensuring increased audio fidelity. Blue Note and EMI will mark their new relationship with the high-definition digital specialist HDTracks by issuing all five titles in multiple digital formats that deliver CD quality resolution or better. Audiophile specialist Analogue Productions will release all five titles in limited edition 200 gram vinyl and SACD editions and will bundle the entire catalog plus a bonus album of rare and unreleased covers in LP and SACD box sets.
Norah Jones
“Happy Pills”
From Little Broken Hearts
Blue Note/EMI
Check out what the critics have been saying about Little Broken Hearts:
…the second essential record of Norah Jones’ career… Little Broken Hearts is exciting because it explores the darkest corners of betrayal, bad love, and jealousy with enough vitality to propel Jones out of the bloodless purgatory of brunch music… Jones has given her NPR-goody-goody image a bruising worthy of the album’s cover.”—SPIN
“Meet the new Norah Jones. The Norah Jones for people who think they don’t like Norah Jones. She just might have made the album of the year. Who says nice girls always finish last?”—MAGNET
“Knock-out wonderful… With Jones these days, you may not know exactly what you’re getting, but you know it’s going to be great.”—FILTER
“Her fifth album is a brand-rejigging songwriting collab with Brian ‘Danger Mouse’ Burton that both picks up her pace and pumps up her palette… Even good girls need revenge sometimes.”—Rolling Stone
“Jones finds a perfectly moody match in Danger Mouse… With that voice, she could have any man begging for forgiveness.”—PEOPLE
“Jones deftly adapts to her surroundings, whether she’s playfully cooing or spitting out righteous indignation.”—ESQUIRE
“Always more versatile than most people think, Jones fits all of this smart material to perfection, marking her second decade as a star while making her sound cooler and more unflappably sophisticated than ever.”—NPR Music
“Even peppy tunes like ‘Happy Pills’ mask dark intent, and the ones that follow through on the spaghetti-Western influence of their work together on last year’s ROME album offer unexpectedly shivery thrills.”—USA Today
“Burton proves an excellent collaborator, the music sometimes spooky and bass-heavy but also surprisingly sunny in spots.”—Associated Press
“a shadowy set of songs spinning tales of love gone bitterly—even murderously—wrong… No one saw this coming. But we like it.”—Marie Claire
“The most dramatic and rewarding departure she’s made in her career… Little Broken Hearts is her most commanding and compelling role yet.”—American Songwriter
“In its exploration of different styles and sounds, Little Broken Hearts solidifies Jones’ reputation as a musical innovator who’s unafraid to shake up her routine.”—BUST
