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The second long-player from Christina Perri, the Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter responsible for penning the surprise 2010 hit "Jar of Hearts," Head or Heart picks right up where 2011's rushed yet brimming-with-potential Lovestrong left off. More confident than her debut, yet retaining much of its vulnerability, Perri, along with a quartet of producers who include Martin Johnson, Jake Gosling, John Hill, and Butch Walker, explores familiar singer/songwriter themes with a keen pop ear, wrapping big, radio-ready choruses inside folksy verses, effectively bridging the gap between the laid-back folk-pop of a Jewel or Norah Jones and the slick, American Idol montage-ready showboating of a Katy Perry or Sara Bareilles. Case in point, the dreamy "Human" (the album's first single), a slow-building, heavy-hearted power ballad that imbues classic, coffeehouse-approved, confessional singer/songwriter tropes with an arm-waving chorus that's ripped straight out of the Kelly Clarkson playbook. To be more concise, Head or Heart works best when Perri leans harder to the pop side of the ship, as is the case on the soaring second single "Burning Gold," a percussion-heavy, tastefully stylized, Florence + the Machine-inspired empowerment anthem, and the bouncy and heartfelt "Be My Forever," the latter a duet with Ed Sheeran. The fact that almost all of these aforementioned songs are grouped together early on in the proceedings doesn't bode well for the album's back half, which is pleasant enough and consists of mostly piano-based odes to love both gained and lost. They lack much of the spark that propels the record's inaugural moments, but Perri has become such a pro at selling even the slightest of ideas that they never feel phoned in.
© James Christopher Monger /TiVo
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MANNY MARROQUIN, MixingEngineer - Emily Lazar, MasteringEngineer - Marianne Haynes, Musician - Jeremy Isaac, Musician - Nicholas Holland, Musician - Chris Leonard, Choir, Musician - Jake Gosling, Producer, Choir, Engineer, Programmer, Musician - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jake Walker, Musician - Christina Perri, Choir, Lead Vocals, Writer, Musician, MainArtist - Peter Gosling, Choir, Musician - Alice Pratley, Musician - Delbert Bowers, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Adam Coltman, Choir - Rich Morales, Assistant Mastering Engineer - Hannah Dawson, Musician - John Keefe, Musician - Tommy Culm, Choir - Steve Rusch, Engineer - andy nixon, Musician - charlie long, Choir - charlotte scott, Musician - chris humphreys, AssistantEngineer - eli gosling, Choir - josh smethurt, Choir - joshua mossler, Engineer - lottiey gregson stevenson, Choir - lucy gosling, Choir - matthew gooderham, Choir - mia long, Choir - murray cummings, Musician - penny long, Choir - ruth barrett, Strings Arranger - sophia long, Choir - sophie davis, Choir - zuban gosling, Choir
© 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. A Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Butch Walker, Producer, Programmer, Musician - Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - John Hill, Producer, Programmer, Musician - Emily Lazar, MasteringEngineer - Jake Sinclair, Engineer - Christina Perri, Lead Vocals, Writer, Musician, MainArtist - Laura Sisk, Engineer - John Hanson, Musician - Kid Harpoon, Programmer, Writer, Musician - Mark Bengston, Assistant Mixing Engineer, Pro Tools - Rich Morales, Assistant Mastering Engineer - Wayne Miller, Musician - mark brauer, Assistant Mixing Engineer
© 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. A Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Jamie Scott, Writer - MANNY MARROQUIN, MixingEngineer - Emily Lazar, MasteringEngineer - Marianne Haynes, Musician - Jeremy Isaac, Musician - Nicholas Holland, Musician - Chris Leonard, Choir, Musician - Jake Gosling, Producer, Choir, Engineer, Programmer, Musician - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jake Walker, Musician - Ed Sheeran, FeaturedArtist - Christina Perri, Choir, Lead Vocals, Writer, Musician, MainArtist - Peter Gosling, Choir, Musician - Alice Pratley, Musician - Delbert Bowers, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Adam Coltman, Choir - Rich Morales, Assistant Mastering Engineer - Hannah Dawson, Musician - John Keefe, Musician - Tommy Culm, Choir - Steve Rusch, Engineer - andy nixon, Musician - charlie long, Choir - charlotte scott, Musician - chris humphreys, AssistantEngineer - eli gosling, Choir - josh smethurt, Choir - joshua mossler, Engineer - lottiey gregson stevenson, Choir - lucy gosling, Choir - matthew gooderham, Choir - mia long, Choir - murray cummings, Musician - penny long, Choir - ruth barrett, Strings Arranger - sophia long, Choir - sophie davis, Choir - zuban gosling, Choir
© 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. A Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Suzie Katayama, Cello - Matt Funes, Viola - Charlie Bisharat, Violin - Tom Coyne, MasteringEngineer - ALLEN SIDES, Engineer - Josefina Vergara, Violin - Julian Hallmark, Violin - Natalie Leggett, Violin - Sara Parkins, Violin - Sarah Thornblade, Violin - Roland Kato, Viola - Rudy Stein, Cello - Vickie Miskolczy, Viola - Alyssa Park, Violin - Tereza Stanislav, Violin - Serena McKinney, Violin - John Walz, Cello - David Stone, Bass Guitar - Songa Lee, Violin - Brandon Paddock, Bass Guitar, Additional Producer, Programmer, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Kyle Moorman, Engineer, Additional Producer, Programmer, MixingEngineer - Marcus Johnson, AssistantEngineer - Christina Perri, Piano, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Martin Johnson, Producer, Engineer, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Percussion, Programmer, Backing Vocals, Writer, Additional Instrumentation, MixingEngineer - David Richard Campbell, Strings Conductor, Strings Arranger - John Keefe, Drums - John Schmidt, AssistantEngineer
© 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. A Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2013 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Kevin Griffin, Writer - MANNY MARROQUIN, MixingEngineer - Emily Lazar, MasteringEngineer - Marianne Haynes, Musician - Jeremy Isaac, Musician - Nicholas Holland, Musician - Chris Leonard, Choir, Musician - Jake Gosling, Producer, Choir, Engineer, Programmer, Musician - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jake Walker, Musician - Christina Perri, Choir, Lead Vocals, Writer, Musician, MainArtist - Peter Gosling, Choir, Musician - Alice Pratley, Musician - Delbert Bowers, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Adam Coltman, Choir - Rich Morales, Assistant Mastering Engineer - Hannah Dawson, Musician - John Keefe, Musician - Tommy Culm, Choir - Steve Rusch, Engineer - andy nixon, Musician - charlie long, Choir - charlotte scott, Musician - chris humphreys, AssistantEngineer - eli gosling, Choir - josh smethurt, Choir - joshua mossler, Engineer - lottiey gregson stevenson, Choir - lucy gosling, Choir - matthew gooderham, Choir - mia long, Choir - murray cummings, Musician - penny long, Choir - ruth barrett, Strings Arranger - sophia long, Choir - sophie davis, Choir - zuban gosling, Choir
© 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. A Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Michael Brauer, MixingEngineer - John Hill, Producer, Programmer, Musician - Emily Lazar, MasteringEngineer - Christina Perri, Lead Vocals, Writer, Musician, MainArtist - Laura Sisk, Engineer - Jack Antonoff, Programmer, Writer, Musician - Mark Bengtson, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Brendan Morawski, AssistantEngineer - jack nntonoff, Producer - john horne, AssistantEngineer
© 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. A Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Jim Eliot, Writer - MANNY MARROQUIN, MixingEngineer - Emily Lazar, MasteringEngineer - Marianne Haynes, Musician - Jeremy Isaac, Musician - Nicholas Holland, Musician - Chris Leonard, Choir, Musician - Jake Gosling, Producer, Choir, Engineer, Programmer, Musician - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jake Walker, Musician - Christina Perri, Choir, Lead Vocals, Writer, Musician, MainArtist - Peter Gosling, Choir, Musician - Alice Pratley, Musician - Delbert Bowers, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Adam Coltman, Choir - Rich Morales, Assistant Mastering Engineer - Hannah Dawson, Musician - John Keefe, Musician - Tommy Culm, Choir - Steve Rusch, Engineer - andy nixon, Musician - charlie long, Choir - charlotte scott, Musician - chris humphreys, AssistantEngineer - eli gosling, Choir - josh smethurt, Choir - joshua mossler, Engineer - lottiey gregson stevenson, Choir - lucy gosling, Choir - matthew gooderham, Choir - mia long, Choir - murray cummings, Musician - penny long, Choir - ruth barrett, Strings Arranger - sophia long, Choir - sophie davis, Choir - zuban gosling, Choir
© 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. A Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Butch Walker, Producer - Jonathan Allen, Audio Recording Engineer - MANNY MARROQUIN, MixingEngineer - Emily Lazar, MasteringEngineer - Thomas Bowes, Lead Violin - ROB MATHES, Strings Conductor, Strings Arranger - David Hodges, Writer - Jake Sinclair, Engineer - Julian Leaper, Lead Violin - David Ryan, Writer - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Gordon Davidson, Assistant Recording Engineer - Christina Perri, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Delbert Bowers, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Todd Stopera, AssistantEngineer - Rich Morales, Assistant Mastering Engineer
© 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. A Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Kevin Griffin, Writer - MANNY MARROQUIN, MixingEngineer - Emily Lazar, MasteringEngineer - Marianne Haynes, Musician - Jeremy Isaac, Musician - Nicholas Holland, Musician - Chris Leonard, Choir, Musician - Jake Gosling, Producer, Choir, Engineer, Programmer, Musician - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jake Walker, Musician - Christina Perri, Choir, Lead Vocals, Writer, Musician, MainArtist - Peter Gosling, Choir, Musician - Alice Pratley, Musician - Delbert Bowers, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Adam Coltman, Choir - Rich Morales, Assistant Mastering Engineer - Hannah Dawson, Musician - John Keefe, Musician - Tommy Culm, Choir - Steve Rusch, Engineer - andy nixon, Musician - charlie long, Choir - charlotte scott, Musician - chris humphreys, AssistantEngineer - eli gosling, Choir - josh smethurt, Choir - joshua mossler, Engineer - lottiey gregson stevenson, Choir - lucy gosling, Choir - matthew gooderham, Choir - mia long, Choir - murray cummings, Musician - penny long, Choir - ruth barrett, Strings Arranger - sophia long, Choir - sophie davis, Choir - zuban gosling, Choir
© 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. A Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation
MANNY MARROQUIN, MixingEngineer - Emily Lazar, MasteringEngineer - Marianne Haynes, Musician - Jeremy Isaac, Musician - Nicholas Holland, Musician - Chris Leonard, Choir, Musician - Jake Gosling, Producer, Choir, Engineer, Programmer, Musician - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jake Walker, Musician - Christina Perri, Choir, Lead Vocals, Writer, Musician, MainArtist - Peter Gosling, Choir, Musician - Alice Pratley, Musician - Delbert Bowers, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Adam Coltman, Choir - Rich Morales, Assistant Mastering Engineer - Hannah Dawson, Musician - John Keefe, Musician - Tommy Culm, Choir - Steve Rusch, Engineer - andy nixon, Musician - charlie long, Choir - charlotte scott, Musician - chris humphreys, AssistantEngineer - eli gosling, Choir - josh smethurt, Choir - joshua mossler, Engineer - lottiey gregson stevenson, Choir - lucy gosling, Choir - matthew gooderham, Choir - mia long, Choir - murray cummings, Musician - penny long, Choir - ruth barrett, Strings Arranger - sophia long, Choir - sophie davis, Choir - zuban gosling, Choir
© 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. A Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation
MANNY MARROQUIN, MixingEngineer - Emily Lazar, MasteringEngineer - Marianne Haynes, Musician - Jeremy Isaac, Musician - Nicholas Holland, Musician - Chris Leonard, Choir, Musician - Jake Gosling, Producer, Choir, Engineer, Programmer, Musician - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jake Walker, Musician - Christina Perri, Choir, Lead Vocals, Writer, Musician, MainArtist - Peter Gosling, Choir, Musician - Alice Pratley, Musician - Delbert Bowers, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Adam Coltman, Choir - Rich Morales, Assistant Mastering Engineer - Hannah Dawson, Musician - John Keefe, Musician - Tommy Culm, Choir - Steve Rusch, Engineer - andy nixon, Musician - charlie long, Choir - charlotte scott, Musician - chris humphreys, AssistantEngineer - eli gosling, Choir - josh smethurt, Choir - joshua mossler, Engineer - lottiey gregson stevenson, Choir - lucy gosling, Choir - matthew gooderham, Choir - mia long, Choir - murray cummings, Musician - penny long, Choir - ruth barrett, Strings Arranger - sophia long, Choir - sophie davis, Choir - zuban gosling, Choir
© 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. A Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Jamie Scott, Writer - MANNY MARROQUIN, MixingEngineer - Emily Lazar, MasteringEngineer - Marianne Haynes, Musician - Jeremy Isaac, Musician - Nicholas Holland, Musician - Chris Leonard, Choir, Musician - Jake Gosling, Producer, Choir, Engineer, Programmer, Musician - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jake Walker, Musician - Christina Perri, Choir, Lead Vocals, Writer, Musician, MainArtist - Peter Gosling, Choir, Musician - Alice Pratley, Musician - Delbert Bowers, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Adam Coltman, Choir - Rich Morales, Assistant Mastering Engineer - Hannah Dawson, Musician - John Keefe, Musician - Tommy Culm, Choir - Steve Rusch, Engineer - andy nixon, Musician - charlie long, Choir - charlotte scott, Musician - chris humphreys, AssistantEngineer - eli gosling, Choir - josh smethurt, Choir - joshua mossler, Engineer - lottiey gregson stevenson, Choir - lucy gosling, Choir - matthew gooderham, Choir - mia long, Choir - murray cummings, Musician - penny long, Choir - ruth barrett, Strings Arranger - sophia long, Choir - sophie davis, Choir - zuban gosling, Choir
© 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. A Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation
MANNY MARROQUIN, MixingEngineer - Emily Lazar, MasteringEngineer - David Hodges, Writer - Marianne Haynes, Musician - Jeremy Isaac, Musician - Nicholas Holland, Musician - Chris Leonard, Choir, Musician - Jake Gosling, Producer, Choir, Engineer, Programmer, Musician - Chris Galland, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Jake Walker, Musician - Christina Perri, Choir, Lead Vocals, Writer, Musician, MainArtist - Peter Gosling, Choir, Musician - Alice Pratley, Musician - Delbert Bowers, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Adam Coltman, Choir - Rich Morales, Assistant Mastering Engineer - Hannah Dawson, Musician - John Keefe, Musician - Tommy Culm, Choir - Steve Rusch, Engineer - andy nixon, Musician - charlie long, Choir - charlotte scott, Musician - chris humphreys, AssistantEngineer - eli gosling, Choir - josh smethurt, Choir - joshua mossler, Engineer - lottiey gregson stevenson, Choir - lucy gosling, Choir - matthew gooderham, Choir - mia long, Choir - murray cummings, Musician - penny long, Choir - ruth barrett, Strings Arranger - sophia long, Choir - sophie davis, Choir - zuban gosling, Choir
© 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. A Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2013 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Album review
The second long-player from Christina Perri, the Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter responsible for penning the surprise 2010 hit "Jar of Hearts," Head or Heart picks right up where 2011's rushed yet brimming-with-potential Lovestrong left off. More confident than her debut, yet retaining much of its vulnerability, Perri, along with a quartet of producers who include Martin Johnson, Jake Gosling, John Hill, and Butch Walker, explores familiar singer/songwriter themes with a keen pop ear, wrapping big, radio-ready choruses inside folksy verses, effectively bridging the gap between the laid-back folk-pop of a Jewel or Norah Jones and the slick, American Idol montage-ready showboating of a Katy Perry or Sara Bareilles. Case in point, the dreamy "Human" (the album's first single), a slow-building, heavy-hearted power ballad that imbues classic, coffeehouse-approved, confessional singer/songwriter tropes with an arm-waving chorus that's ripped straight out of the Kelly Clarkson playbook. To be more concise, Head or Heart works best when Perri leans harder to the pop side of the ship, as is the case on the soaring second single "Burning Gold," a percussion-heavy, tastefully stylized, Florence + the Machine-inspired empowerment anthem, and the bouncy and heartfelt "Be My Forever," the latter a duet with Ed Sheeran. The fact that almost all of these aforementioned songs are grouped together early on in the proceedings doesn't bode well for the album's back half, which is pleasant enough and consists of mostly piano-based odes to love both gained and lost. They lack much of the spark that propels the record's inaugural moments, but Perri has become such a pro at selling even the slightest of ideas that they never feel phoned in.
© James Christopher Monger /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:49:34
- Main artists: Christina Perri
- Label: Atlantic Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. A Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2014 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. A Warner Music Group Company
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