★★★★★
Jones' fifth album finds her taking a fresh and radical approach to, if not so much the sounds and shapes of her music, then certainly the way in which she arrived at them. For the first time, she entered the studio without fully-formed and arranged songs, and armed only with rough sketches and scraps of lyrics. In tandem with producer extraordinaire Danger Mouse she's fashioned a gloriously atmospheric and engaging record...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Since her charming fourth LP, our poor little Norah Jones has had her heart broken. This happens to the best of us - it occurred to me quite recently, putting me in the perfect mindset to make the most of this nice little album...
- hour.ca
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Release Date: April 25, 2012 Norah Jones has written the album of her career and it sounds absolutely nothing like any of her previous albums. That in and of itself is why the nation (errr, the world) needs to fall in love with Little Broken Hearts. Produced by Danger Mouse, the album is dark, dirty and ultimately, incredibly hypnotic. Album opener "Good Morning," opens things off with her ever-present piano, the light strum of a guitar and her gorgeous, if not sparse vocals...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-07-23
★★★★★
Norah Jones steps into the danger zone on her fifth album, teaming with producer Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton, who instills burbling beats and old-timey atmospherics. The resultant ... Little Broken Hearts is a career-redefining breakup LP that also works as a tell-off for anyone continuing to discount the Dallas-born chanteuse as an overly snoozy songwriter. Moving from the supper club to the dance floor, the team scores with "Say Goodbye" in the two spot, followed by the album's title track...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2012-07-16
★★★★★
One of the many frustrating things about Norah Jones is what appears to be a total unwillingness to push herself beyond her lyrical and vocal comfort zones. She's a gifted vocalist, a good-enough pianist, and a gracious performer, and yet--without exception--her first four studio albums sound like one long, tiresome song...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2012-05-24
★★★★★
For many of us, Norah Jones has been frozen in a moment in time since 2002. Come Away With Me not only launched her career in spectacular fashion but cast her as a middle of the road, soft jazz singer - an American Katie Melua if you like. No matter that subsequent albums saw her broaden her musical outlook and deal in darker subject matter, she was cursed by preconception. What all this means, though, is that recent developments have proved to be a pleasant surprise...
- www.state.ie
2012-05-24
★★★★★
Norah Jones is the most fascinating boring musician working today. When Jones' debut album Come Away With Me became a multiplatinum, Grammy-winning sensation, the moment represented something genuinely welcome: the triumph of the simple over the processed and the packaged. And Jones has continued to sell remarkably well, given that her kind of music is both difficult to classify and unlike almost anything else on top of the charts...
- www.avclub.com
2012-05-17
★★★★★
Produced by Danger Mouse following their collaboration on Rome last year, Norah Jones' Little Broken Hearts could serve as Pt. 2, as we are treated to vintage sounds and Jones' trite, ever pleasant crooning again. Some songs only contain moments of magic from the vocals, though ("She's Only 22"); others are knock-out wonderful, and untouchable by the lesser likes of Lana Del Rey, et al. ("Miriam")...
- filtermagazine.com
2012-05-10
★★★★★
There is not a single note, lyric or affectation to Norah Jones' colossal debut, 2002's Come Away With Me, that would foreshadow the dark and at points frightening turn she'd take ten years down the road. In fact, her first three albums all swam in the warm glow of piano-driven jazz, attracting a wide variety of listeners because of Jones' smooth alto and the affability of the musical backdrop...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2012-05-10
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