Heart Returns With Beautiful Broken – New Songs And Revisited Favorites

Beautiful Broken finds Ann and Nancy Wilson exploring new songs, but taking some of their favorite “cherry picks” from their catalog and rerecording and rethinking them. The title track and first single features a guest vocal contribution by Metallica’s James Hetfield with Ann Wilson.

“There is really a seventies feel to this record both in the sound, and the way we got to the emotional core of each song,” says Nancy Wilson. “We picked songs that we always wanted to re-do, plus we’ve added three new tracks. On both new and old, we have the band playing together the way we used to. This is classic Heart.”

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The seven tracks that were pulled from the HEART catalog were tunes both Nancy and Ann wanted another shot at, due many times to how they were initially produced. Songs like “City’s Burning,” “Down on Me,” and “Sweet Darlin’” have always been live favorites of the sisters, and of HEART’s fan base, but they had somewhat languished.

“Those songs may have fallen through the cracks, in a way, because of where radio was at the time when they were first released,” Ann Wilson says. “Rediscovering those songs, I found ways they emotionally still speak to me.”

Two songs are from Passionworks, two from Private Audition, and two are from Bebe Le Strange. BEAUTIFUL BROKEN’s title track had been a bonus song off Fanatic, HEART’s last album, but this version is essentially an entirely new song with barnburner vocals—and even some lyrics—added by Metallica’s James Hetfield.

“It blows the previous version out of the water,” says Nancy. “James just took the song on, and what he added was perfect with a bite and a rock accent.”

Track listing:

01 Beautiful Broken
02 Two
03 Sweet Darlin’
04 I Jump
05 Johnny Moon
06 Heaven
07 City’s Burning
08 Down on Me
09 One Word
10 Language of Love

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