Beauty & Crime

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.

Beauty & Crime
Studio album by
Suzanne Vega
ReleasedJuly 17, 2007 (2007-07-17)
RecordedNovember 2006 – January 2007
Studio
  • Great City, New York City
  • Sear Sound, New York City
  • Jimmy's Studio, London, UK
  • Olympic, London, UK
Genre
Length33:58
LabelBlue Note
ProducerJimmy Hogarth
Suzanne Vega chronology
Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega
(2003)
Beauty & Crime
(2007)
Close-Up Vol. 1, Love Songs
(2010)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic84/100
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Entertainment WeeklyA−
musicOMH
PopMatters
StylusB
Under the Radar
USA Today
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