| Songs in Red and Gray | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Suzanne Vega |
| Cover: | Suzanne Vega - Songs in Red and Gray (album).png |
| Recorded: | November 2000 – May 2001 |
| Studio: | Chung King, Sear Sound, Shelter Island Sound, Looking Glass Studio (New York) |
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| Length: | 45:31 |
| Label: | A&M |
| Producer: | Rupert Hine |
| Prev Year: | 1998 |
| Next Year: | 2003 |
Songs in Red and Gray is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. It was released on September 25, 2001 by A&M Records.
On Songs in Red and Gray, Vega returns to her signature acoustic folk-pop sound, shedding the experiments she had done in the 1990s with her husband, record producer Mitchell Froom. New producer Rupert Hine shows some traces of his past work with '80s new wave bands by employing electronic beats,[2] but mostly allows Vega's voice and guitar to dominate in a manner reminiscent of her debut album and its 1987 follow-up, Solitude Standing.[2]
Most of the songs, like "Widow's Walk" and "If I Were a Weapon", deal with the dissolution of Vega's marriage with Froom.[2] [3] Her "calm, hushed, clear singing" belies the album's "mood of heartbroken defiance".[2] The lyrics are "the most personally revealing songs she has written" in her career.[3]
| Peak position | ||
| scope=row style="text-align:left;" | Australian Albums (ARIA)[4] | 187 |
|---|---|---|
| UK Albums (Official Charts Company)[5] | 100 | |
