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The emotional imprint of The Fall moves beyond the pining, wistful tones that are her trademark in favour of Sex And The City scenarios bursting with heartbreak, regret and emotional devastation.
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The Fall is ultimately a mildly more adventurous art-pop take on her piano-based cabaret style.
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The Fall offers many new sides to Jones while remaining comfortably close to the jazz diva many adore.
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During the 13-song set, Jones ditches the gentle piano-playing of her previous work and rises to a new level of creative boldness.
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Easy listening princess goes indie-goth.
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Q MagazineThe Fall contains more than a few copper-bottomed classics: the languid and steamy I Wouldn't Need You, the Ryan Adams co-write Light As A Feather, and Chasing Pirates, a near-perfect two-and-half minute study of the racing thoughts that get in the way of sleep. [Dec 2009, p. 114]
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FilterBut unlike Not Too Late, Jones' latest decision to ditch her keys for strings is a poor one. In a way, she had indeed found a different beat to groove to, and if anyone can play in a piano bar without a piano, it would certainly be Norah Jones. [Holiday 2009, p. 91]
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Here, Jones ties up loose ends, unafraid to sound smooth or sultry, letting in just enough dissonance and discord to give this dimension, creating a subtle but rather extraordinary low-key record that functions as a piece of mood music but lingers longer, thanks to its finely crafted songs.
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She's also got a voice that seems made to jump genres: supple, mellifluous, effortlessly sexy. But even when Jones lets it rip, so to speak, as on The Fall's moderately rollicking saloon stomper 'It's Gonna Be,' she remains, at heart, a girl gone mild.
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The Fall has been billed as Norah Jones' rock album. In fact, it's something even more surprising: a hot-blooded soul record from the queen of the even keel.
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It’s the sonic and emotional expansion her music needed, and its tied to some of her most unguarded songs.
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She seems liberated from the expectations of what her music is supposed to sound like, and the album is flush with fresh production ideas and a varied sonic palette.
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The result is avant-roots music that rocks, albeit gently.
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The Fall is a concept album with a punchline, with most of the songs detailing the push and pull of a faltering relationship.
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Less predictable was her now clear desire to take risks and step off the all-too-well-forged path of safe, agreeable background music. Instead, on The Fall Norah Jones chooses to defy categorization.
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On The Fall, Jones is clearly comfortable with where she’s arrived, and is ready to throw open the doors for a party.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 32 out of 38
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Mixed: 5 out of 38
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Negative: 1 out of 38
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Nov 21, 2021A very different approach to Norah Jones going from blues to rock some songs are good and have a rnb feel others are bland.
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Nov 9, 2012
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JasonSNov 19, 2009This Cd is not what I hoped it would be change can be good but not in this case.