Length 33:58 Artist Suzanne Vega Producer Jimmy Hogarth | Label Blue Note/Capitol Release date 17 July 2007 | |
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Released June 11, 2007 (UK)
July 17, 2007 (USA) Recorded November 2006 – January 2007 in NYC; London Beauty & Crime
(2007) Close-Up Vol. 1, Love Songs
(2010) Genres Rock music, Folk rock, Acoustic music Awards Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical Similar Suzanne Vega albums, Rock music albums | ||
Beauty & Crime is the seventh studio album release by New York-based singer/songwriter and musician Suzanne Vega. It is her first album of new material since 2001's Songs in Red and Gray and is also her first for Blue Note Records. It was released on July 17, 2007. Beauty & Crime won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, on February 11, 2008.
Contents
Development
Following lukewarm commercial success for her prior two albums, 1996's Nine Objects of Desire and Songs in Red and Gray, A&M Records ended their lengthy contract with Vega (she had signed in 1983) with the release of the more commercially successful hits package Retrospective in 2003.
Between then and 2006, Vega embarked on a hectic and extensive touring schedule and performed a number of the songs from Beauty & Crime, in their early forms, during concerts, including "Unbound," "Edith Wharton's Figurines," and "New York is a Woman."
The album was recorded in New York City between November 10-November 27, 2006, with further recording work commencing in England in January 2007.
Track listing
All songs written by Suzanne Vega.
- "Zephyr & I" - 3:10
- "Ludlow Street" - 3:16
- "New York is a Woman" - 2:54
- "Pornographer's Dream" - 3:23
- "Frank & Ava" - 2:38
- "Edith Wharton's Figurines" - 2:23
- "Bound" - 4:43
- "Unbound" - 3:34
- "As You Are Now" - 2:20
- "Angel's Doorway" - 2:55
- "Anniversary" - 2:57
- "Obvious Question" (Bonus Track) - 1:50
Personnel
Songs
1Zephyr & I3:11
2Ludlow Street3:16
3New York Is A Woman2:54