Suzanne Vega Returns

Here’s one of my favorite music critics reviewing a new album from one of my favorite artists.

And the news is very good.

Beauty and Crime is, without reservation, the defining creative moment of Suzanne Vega’s career thus far, and a morally and emotionally communicative recording that instructs even as it confesses from inside, and reports from the margins and becomes, in its graceful impurity, a vision that is singular and utterly direct.