Sealed 2010 Four Disc Box Containing Four 200gm Clarity SV-P II LPs. “Musically, This Is Easily Her Most Adventurous Record Ever; Yet It Is Also More Accessible Than Any Album Since Her Debut. The Craft And Care Put Into The Songs Themselves And Their Articulation By Vega And Producer Jimmy Hogarth Are Amazing. Here, Emotions Are Laid Bare In Places Whether In The First, Second, Or Third Persons, But They Are Always Placed Inside Elegant Yet Spare Lyrics That Are Taut, Poetic, And Evocative. The Dreamy Soundscape Contains Layers Of Guitars, Percussion (Organic, Electronic And Live, In One Case) Strings, Reeds, Brass, And Backing Singers (Including Daughter Ruby Froom Who Appears On A Couple Of Cuts, And KT Tunstall Who Appears Once). But It's The Sound Of Vega's Acoustic Guitar On All These Songs That Is Unmistakably At The Top And Provides The Album's Anchor. It's Important To Note This, Simply Because It Keeps These Beautiful Pop Songs Rooted In A New Kind Of Contemporary Folk That Vega Was A Pioneer Of In The '80s. And It Keeps Her Rooted To Her Own Catalog, From The Beginning To The Present. In Other Words, As She Has Experimented In The Past With All Kinds Of Sounds, She Has Forever Remained Herself And Never More So Than Here, Whether It's The Jazzy, Faux Bossa Nova Of "Pornographer's Dream" Or Its Predecessor, The Stunning "New York Is A Woman." "Frank And Ava," Is A Rocking Pop Tune Whose Electric And Acoustic Guitars Entwine, Seemingly Kissing, Wrapped Around A Bassline Played By Tony Shanahan From The Patti Smith Group. Beauty& 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.” Thom Jurek, AMG.