Beauty & Crime


Beauty & Crime is the seventh studio album by American 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.

Development

After lukewarm commercial success for her last two albums, Nine Objects of Desire and Songs in Red and Gray A&M Records ended their contract with Vega 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.

Track listing

All tracks written by Suzanne Vega.
  1. "Zephyr & I" – 3:10
  2. "Ludlow Street" – 3:16
  3. "New York Is a Woman" – 2:54
  4. "Pornographer's Dream" – 3:23
  5. "Frank & Ava" – 2:38
  6. "Edith Wharton's Figurines" – 2:23
  7. "Bound" – 4:43
  8. "Unbound" – 3:34
  9. "As You Are Now" – 2:20
  10. "Angel's Doorway" – 2:55
  11. "Anniversary" – 2:57
  13. "Obvious Question" – 1:50

Personnel

Production