As one would expect from eight-time Grammy award winner Jones delivers her customary bluesy tones with aplomb in new album, Little Broken Hearts. In her soulfully poignant style, Jones calls attention to why the lyrics of ‘She’s 22’ recall her roots in first album Come Away with Me whilst tracks like ‘Take it Back’ and ‘After the Fall’ deliver a melancholia which demonstrates a much more concentrated and instrumental influence to her already polished vocals. With each breathy note fighting for attention in a breezy backdrop, Jones transports the listener away to a calming place of serenity and composure.
The soft tones and melodious warblings of Jones are perfectly complimented in the soft piano instrumentals and synths which blend into a harmonious melody guaranteed to leave you warm inside and dying for a nap. It seems safe to consider this offering as instant therapy in a case. This album seems less about mourning a broken heart and more about the expression of freedom and independence which bursts out in each track in a quasi-religious experience, which delights and entices the listener into Norah’s world.
Though that is not to say the heartbreak is entirely absent; lyrical sharpness and a dark mood haunt the periphery, adding edge and an exciting new flavour to Jones’s stand out ethereality. One for the CD rack, the iTunes library, heck – blare it from the entire house: as an album, Little Broken Hearts showcases the very best of a talent artist, whilst showing range, flare and an originality which leaves us excitedly begging for more.