Tales From the Realm of the Queen of Peaches LP

Suzanne Vega built ten songs here around tarot imagery, growing the whole thing out of "Fool's Complaint" and casting herself as the Fool instead of any of the court cards. Gerry Leonard's electric guitar, Larry Campbell's banjo, and string arrangements from the Smichov Chamber Orchestra of Prague fill it out, and reviewers praised the orchestration and the novelistic songwriting, including four stars from American Songwriter. It marked her first studio album in seven years, and it sounds like someone who'd been saving up material.