Heart Shaped World
by Chris Isaak
- Type: Album
- Released: 13 June 1989
- Label: Reprise
- Country: United States
- Length: 46:10
- Community rating: 3.8/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Heart Shaped World' refines Chris Isaak's retro-leaning aesthetic, centering on atmospheric, reverb-drenched guitar textures and his resonant vocal performance. The album seamlessly blends elements of 1950s rockabilly and Americana within a polished pop-rock framework, achieving substantial commercial success primarily through the atmospheric single 'Wicked Game'.
Genres
Descriptors: ballad, melodic, atmospheric, crooning, retro
Tracklist
- Heart Shaped World (3:29)
- I'm Not Waiting (3:16)
- Don't Make Me Dream About You (3:33)
- Kings Of The Highway (4:46)
- Wicked Game (4:49)
- Blue Spanish Sky (3:58)
- Wrong To Love You (4:19)
- Forever Young (3:23)
- Nothing's Changed (4:08)
- In The Heat Of The Jungle (6:19)
- Diddley Daddy (4:06)
Credits
- Chris Isaak - primary artist, vocals, guitar, written-by
- Jeri Heiden - art direction, design
- Rowland Salley - bass guitar, vocals
- Kenney Dale Johnson - drums, vocals
- Mark Needham - engineer
- James Calvin Wilsey - lead guitar
- Erik Jacobsen - management, producer
- Greg Fulginiti - mastered by
- Lee Herschberg - mixed by [mixing assistance]
- Chris Solberg - musician
- Christine Wall - musician
- Cynthia Lloyd - musician
- Frank Martin - musician
- Joni Haastrup - musician
- Pete Scaturro - musician
- Prairie Prince - musician
- Lex Van Rossen - photography by [front cover]
- Pamela Gentile - photography by [live]
- Rick Lopez - photography by [portraits]
- Andy Paley - co-producer
- Bo Diddley - written-by
- Harvey Fuqua - written-by