Havoc and Bright Lights

Personnel: Alanis Morissette (vocals); David Levita (electric guitar); Zac Rae (keyboards); Victor Indrizzo (percussion).
Recording information: AM's House; Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA; The Bank, Burbank, CA.
Photographer: Hirakawa.
Alanis Morissette's seventh studio album, the spry and hopeful Havoc and Bright Lights, couldn't be more thematically different than 2008's brooding, techno-kissed Flavors of Entanglement, which dealt with the emotional fallout from the dissolution of her engagement with actor Ryan Reynolds. Produced by Guy Sigworth (Seal, Björk, Madonna) and Joe Chiccarelli (My Morning Jacket, Counting Crows), the 12 songs on Bright Lights bristle with the explosive choruses and unguarded intimacy that have become Morissette's stock in trade since her 1995 debut, but with a newfound focus on marriage and motherhood; she wed rapper Mario "MC Souleye" Treadway, and gave birth to her first child, Ever Imre, in2010.