Suzanne Vega

With "nine objects of desire," singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega's first album in four years,
she deftly executes a difficult artistic maneuver: moving ahead by stepping back. The
industrial-remix treatment by DNA of Vega's a cappella ditty "Tom's Diner" was an
unexpected hit in 1990. But its success also pushed her so far into the icy world of machine
pop – and away from the gently penetrating quality of early songs such as "Unde... More >