Editing Michelle Branch (section)

===2013–2017: New record deal and ''Hopeless Romantic''===
[[File:Michelle Branch 07 21 2017 -12 (36960062282).jpg|thumb|Branch performs at [[Slim's]] in [[San Francisco]], July 21, 2017.]]
For much of 2013, Branch wrote songs and moved on from the unreleased ''West Coast Time''. On November 5, 2013, Branch announced that she had started recording a new album in [[London]] with [[Martin Terefe]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Working with Martin|url=https://twitter.com/michellebranch|website=Twitter.com|date=November 5, 2013}}</ref> On February 2, 2014, she confirmed on Twitter that the rest of the album would be recorded in Nashville for a pop-rock sound.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}} In October 2014, she recorded a cover of [[Radiohead]]'s "[[Creep (Radiohead song)|Creep]]" which was subsequently used in an episode of ''[[Stalker (TV series)|Stalker]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.directlyrics.com/is-michelle-branchs-cover-of-creep-better-than-radioheads-version-listen-news.html|title=Is Michelle Branch's Cover of "Creep" Better Than Radiohead's Version? Listen!|website=Directlyrics.com}}</ref>

On July 17, 2015, Branch announced that she had signed with [[Verve Records]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/michellebranch/status/622215847554220032|title=Michelle Branch on Twitter|website=Twitter.com}}</ref> In May 2016, she appeared on ''[[Full Frontal with Samantha Bee]]'' to sing "Goodbye [[Ted Cruz]]", a reworking of her song "Goodbye to You", as a tongue-in-cheek lament to the suspension of [[Ted Cruz 2016 presidential campaign|Ted Cruz's US presidential campaign]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Moran|first=Lee|title=Michelle Branch Sings A Biting Goodbye To 'Lizard Face' Ted Cruz|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michelle-branch-ted-cruz-song_us_57318a4be4b096e9f0927d1a|access-date=May 13, 2016|work=Huffington Post|agency=HPMG News|date=May 10, 2016}}</ref>

In December 2016, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' announced Branch's new album, ''[[Hopeless Romantic (Michelle Branch album)|Hopeless Romantic]]'', which was released on April 7, 2017.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=O'Donnell|first1=Kevin|last2=Feeney|first2=Nolan|last3=Vain|first3=Madison|last4=Renner Brown|first4=Eric|last5=Goodman|first5=Jessica|last6=Greenblatt|first6=Leah|title=The 35 Most Anticipated Albums Of 2017|url=http://ew.com/music/2016/12/22/most-anticipated-albums-2017/|access-date=December 22, 2016|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=December 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223181649/http://ew.com/music/2016/12/22/most-anticipated-albums-2017/|archive-date=December 23, 2016|url-status=live|location=United States}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nylon.com/articles/michelle-branch-new-album|title=Michelle Branch Is About To Release Her First Album In 14 Years|website=Nylon.com|date=January 7, 2017 }}</ref> Branch announced in September 2017, that she had parted ways with Verve Records.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Kile |first=Meredith B. |url=http://www.etonline.com/exclusive-how-michelle-branch-patrick-carney-take-life-song-song-86842 |title=EXCLUSIVE: How Michelle Branch & Patrick Carney Take Life 'Song by Song' |work=[[Entertainment Tonight]] |date=September 8, 2017 |access-date=September 8, 2017}}</ref>

Branch and [[Patrick Carney]] performed a cover of the song "[[A Horse with No Name]]" for a [[BoJack Horseman season 4|season 4]] episode of ''[[BoJack Horseman]]'' titled "The Old Sugarman Place", where the title character drives through the desert. This version also appears on the soundtrack album of the series.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Hear Patrick Carney, Michelle Branch's New Song for 'BoJack Horseman'|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/patrick-carney-michelle-branchs-song-for-bojack-horseman-w500002|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=August 28, 2017}}</ref>