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Flying With Angels

Suzanne Vega

Flying With Angels

Tenth studio album, and first for eleven years to feature new material from the Californian singer-songwriter produced by Gerry Leonard

ADM rating[?]

7.2

Label
Cooking Vinyl
UK Release date
02/05/2025
US Release date
02/05/2025
  1. 8.9 |   Spectrum Culture

    NEW On Flying with Angels, Suzanne Vega presents her strongest set of songs in some time, musically grounded in the folk-pop of her earlier work but lyrically reflecting our own troubled times
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  2. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    NEW One this musical generation’s key storytellers picks the world apart and evokes both horror at our present and optimism for our future
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  3. 8.0 |   Mojo

    NEW With its silvery guitar and tentative vision of collective power, the title track also offers a means of escape. It frames an album that, in its own determined way, boldly meets the moment. Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   The Arts Desk

    NEW Unlike Dylan from whom we’ve not heard a peep about society’s manifold ills these past few decades, Vega engages
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  5. 7.0 |   All Music

    NEW Flying with Angels is impressive and satisfying in its craft and distinctive outlook
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  6. 7.0 |   Uncut

    NEW Her 10th album steps back from the literary conceits and high concepts of her last couple of albums and finds humility and grace amid the "permanent emergency" of the present. Print edition only

  7. 6.0 |   The Independent

    NEW At times, Vega’s use of clunky rhymes undoes the elegance of her more literary lines, but it’s still lovely to have her back in action
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