Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(81/100)
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The A.V. Club	(favorable)
Blender
E! Online	B+
Entertainment Weekly	B+
Mojo
Q
Robert Christgau
Rolling Stone	(favorable)

Songs in Red and Gray is the sixth studio album release by New York-based singer/songwriter and musician Suzanne Vega. The album was Vega's final album for A&M Records (with whom she had been since 1983) and also marks the divorce from her husband and producer Mitchell Froom.

The album shows a return to Vega's early musical form of acoustic folk-pop, shedding the stylistic experimentalism she had developed with producer and husband Mitchell Froom in the 1990s. New producer Rupert Hine shows some traces of his past work with '80s new wave bands by employing electronic beats, but mostly allows Vega's voice and guitar to dominate the tracks in a manner reminiscent of her debut album and its 1987 follow-up, Solitude Standing.

Lyrically, most of the songs, like "Widow's Walk" and "(I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May", deal with the unhappy dissolution of her romance with Froom. Vega's "calm, hushed, clear singing" belies the album's "mood of heartbroken defiance". Its lyrical content represents "the most personally revealing songs she has written" in her career.

All tracks composed by Suzanne Vega; except where indicated:

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