American musician's new album, Pick Me Up the Floor, deals with heartbreak and knows how to tell a story

• Nora Jones on the cover of her new album

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When Nora Jones' husband heard for the first time some of her new album songs, "Pick Me Up the Floor," in their raw and initial version, he looked at his wife and said one sentence: "God, they're so sad." That's how the 41-year-old American singer said in an interview to promote the album. "I didn't even realize they were sad. I was so excited about the music," she added. 

"Lift Me Off The Floor," Jones's eighth album, is a classic farewell album. The kind that deals with heartbreak, pain, searching and recovery. Throughout his 11 songs, the singer takes listeners on a journey following a broken heart. This is already evident in the song names. The opening "How I Weep" is an initial crying response to shock (even if, in fact, it's not such a sweeping opening song). "Hurts to be Alone" doesn't really have to be explained, and "Heartbroken, Day After," from the album's highlights, is an accurate musical illustration of the morning's false sense of calm. This one, which is just like the song, is turned into a great pain that erupts towards the evening.

 "This life, as we know it, is over" she eulogizes in "This Life," but shows new signs of life, or at least comfort and a desire to be restored in "I'm Alive." "These cracks in my heart can't be repaired with concrete," she sings in the bitter "Sweet Live", another record moment in the album. It will end, in the way of crises, with the completion that "Heaven Above" brings with it, and at this stage one can say with certainty that even if her new songs don't really have a real representation in her personal life right now, Jones certainly knows how to tell a story - an art that seems to have passed through the music of recent decades, in the era After the album. 

Since breaking out in the Giant in 2002, Jones has won numerous Grammy awards and sold more than 50 million albums. Through an elegant mix of jazz, blues and pop, she has become a favorite of the upper middle-class people, and her music has accompanied quite a few New York lunch cocktail parties, one has to guess. 

If you are one of those for whom Jones is an icon of elevator music, you probably won't be excited about the new songs, which will still have the same minor boredom for you (it was a refreshing stylistic experience in her previous album from last year). 

If you are on the other side of humanity - you will find in the album a pure pleasure sponsored by a musician who has to prove nothing, just keep doing what she is good at. And maybe just make up a goodbye story occasionally, for the emotion.