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Suzanne Vega
- Record Label: Uptown/Universal / A&M
- Release Date: Sep 25, 2001
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Her calm, hushed, clear singing only emphasizes the emotional torment the songs trace. The result is an album on a par with her best work.
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A polished, classy album whose retrained elegance and melancholy resonance more than compensate for its lack of rhythmic and instrumental restlessness.
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Per usual, the content is clouded in misery--the kind of soft, sad and touching tracks that'll have Dido fans rediscovering this Greenwich Village adult-alternative pioneer
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Entertainment WeeklyInfinite sadness, hypnotic beauty. [28 Sep 2001, p.74]
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[Her songs are] articulate and bright, enlivened by pithy metaphors and images that suggest a well-rounded English major with a sensitive side.
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MojoCould well be her finest yet. [Oct 2001, p.128]
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Vega's been good before, especially on her eponymous 1985 debut and its '87 follow-up, Solitude Standing, but never as consistently good as she is here.
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Revealing a songwriter unwilling to compromise even when it hurts, Songs makes her return all the more welcome.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 0 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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Oct 3, 2014
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PhilipFMar 16, 2003
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JohnV.Dec 2, 2001This is a very good one... probably her best...