Heart – Beautiful Broken (2016)
📀 Album Overview
Beautiful Broken is the fifteenth studio album by American rock band Heart, released in 2016. The album is a unique mix of new material and reworked versions of songs from their earlier catalog, giving older tracks a modern production style. It represents both a retrospective and a continuation of Heart’s legacy, blending past and present into a cohesive release.
🎶 Genre
The album is primarily rock and hard rock, with elements of folk rock. It features a contemporary production style while maintaining the band’s signature mix of acoustic and electric instrumentation.
💿 Tracklist
- Beautiful Broken
- Two
- Sweet Darlin
- I Jump
- Johnny Moon
- Heaven
- City’s Burning
- Shotgun
- Language of Love
- Down on Me
👥 Album Credits
Ann Wilson – lead vocals
Nancy Wilson – guitars, vocals
Craig Bartock – guitars
Chris Joyner – keyboards
Dan Rothchild – bass guitar
Ben Smith – drums
Heart – producers
⚡ Fun Facts
• The title track “Beautiful Broken” features a collaboration with James Hetfield.
• Several songs on the album are reimagined versions of earlier Heart tracks.
• The album blends archival ideas with modern recording techniques.
🧠 Trivia
• The concept of revisiting older material gave the band a chance to reinterpret songs with decades of experience.
• The album combines newly written songs with refreshed versions of lesser-known tracks.
• It reflects both nostalgia and reinvention within Heart’s discography.
📚 Did You Know
• Beautiful Broken is one of the few Heart albums to feature a high-profile guest vocalist.
• The project highlights how the band’s sound evolved while still staying true to its roots.
• It stands as their most recent studio album to date, closing a long and influential recording career.
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