Beauty & Crime | ||||
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Released | July 17, 2007 | |||
Recorded | November 2006 – January 2007 | |||
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Length | 33:58 | |||
Label | Blue Note | |||
Producer | Jimmy Hogarth | |||
Suzanne Vega chronology | ||||
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Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 84/100 [1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Entertainment Weekly | A− [3] |
musicOMH | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
PopMatters | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Stylus | B [6] |
Under the Radar | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
USA Today | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Beauty & Crime is the seventh studio album by singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. It is her first album of new material since 2001's Songs in Red and Gray and 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. It was dedicated to Tim Vega, Suzanne's younger half-brother who had died in 2002.
After lukewarm commercial success for her last two albums, Nine Objects of Desire (1996) and Songs in Red and Gray (2001) A&M Records ended their contract with Vega[ citation needed] with the release of the more commercially successful hits package Retrospective in 2003.
Vega embarked on an extensive tour and performed songs from Beauty & Crime in their early forms, including "Unbound", "Edith Wharton's Figurines", and "New York Is a Woman".
The album was recorded in New York City from November 10–27, 2006, with additional recording in England in January 2007.
All tracks written by Suzanne Vega.
Production
Vega wrote following comments on the album's songs:
Chart (2007) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums ( ARIA) [8] | 302 |
Belgian Albums ( Ultratop Flanders) [9] | 31 |
Belgian Albums ( Ultratop Wallonia) [10] | 69 |
Finnish Albums ( Suomen virallinen lista) [11] | 13 |
Czech Albums[ citation needed] | 37 |
Estonian Albums[ citation needed] | 9 |
French Albums ( SNEP) [12] | 52 |
German Albums ( Offizielle Top 100) [13] | 81 |
Italian Albums ( FIMI) [14] | 74 |
Polish Albums ( ZPAV) [15] | 49 |
Swiss Albums ( Schweizer Hitparade) [16] | 79 |
UK Albums [17] | 127 |
US Billboard 200 [18] | 129 |
US Billboard Comprehensive Albums[ citation needed] | 140 |
Beauty & Crime | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | July 17, 2007 | |||
Recorded | November 2006 – January 2007 | |||
Studio |
| |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 33:58 | |||
Label | Blue Note | |||
Producer | Jimmy Hogarth | |||
Suzanne Vega chronology | ||||
|
Aggregate scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 84/100 [1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Entertainment Weekly | A− [3] |
musicOMH | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
PopMatters | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Stylus | B [6] |
Under the Radar | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
USA Today | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Beauty & Crime is the seventh studio album by singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. It is her first album of new material since 2001's Songs in Red and Gray and 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. It was dedicated to Tim Vega, Suzanne's younger half-brother who had died in 2002.
After lukewarm commercial success for her last two albums, Nine Objects of Desire (1996) and Songs in Red and Gray (2001) A&M Records ended their contract with Vega[ citation needed] with the release of the more commercially successful hits package Retrospective in 2003.
Vega embarked on an extensive tour and performed songs from Beauty & Crime in their early forms, including "Unbound", "Edith Wharton's Figurines", and "New York Is a Woman".
The album was recorded in New York City from November 10–27, 2006, with additional recording in England in January 2007.
All tracks written by Suzanne Vega.
Production
Vega wrote following comments on the album's songs:
Chart (2007) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums ( ARIA) [8] | 302 |
Belgian Albums ( Ultratop Flanders) [9] | 31 |
Belgian Albums ( Ultratop Wallonia) [10] | 69 |
Finnish Albums ( Suomen virallinen lista) [11] | 13 |
Czech Albums[ citation needed] | 37 |
Estonian Albums[ citation needed] | 9 |
French Albums ( SNEP) [12] | 52 |
German Albums ( Offizielle Top 100) [13] | 81 |
Italian Albums ( FIMI) [14] | 74 |
Polish Albums ( ZPAV) [15] | 49 |
Swiss Albums ( Schweizer Hitparade) [16] | 79 |
UK Albums [17] | 127 |
US Billboard 200 [18] | 129 |
US Billboard Comprehensive Albums[ citation needed] | 140 |