Beauty & Crime
| Beauty & Crime | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | July 17, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | November 2006 – January 2007 | |||
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| Length | 33:58 | |||
| Label | Blue Note | |||
| Producer | Jimmy Hogarth | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 84/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− |
| Evening Standard | |
| The Line of Best Fit | 55% |
| musicOMH | |
| PopMatters | 7/10 |
| Stylus | B |
| Under the Radar | 7/10 |
| 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.