Beauty & Crime

Beauty & Crime
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 17, 2007
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−
Evening Standard
The Line of Best Fit55%
musicOMH
PopMatters7/10
StylusB
Under the Radar7/10
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.