DAYS OF OPEN HAND was Suzanne Vega's first album after SOLITUDE STANDING, an album that was released three years prior. That album yielded the surprise hit "Luka", and clearly Vega was taking her time fashioning a follow-up. DAYS OF OPEN HAND is a strong album of quiet rewards. It also finds her in a transition of sorts--Vega left her folk-singing beginnings behind in favour of a whole-hearted embrace of dance rhythms and the grand technological possibilities of the recording studio. Finely honed lyrics empower every song on this set, with quiet anger rubbing shoulders with hopeful romanticism, angst, melancholy, and the simple joys of watching the world. The song that most fully shows her standing at her own personal crossroads is "Book of Dreams". Though at its core a folk song, the track happily embraces lavish pop instrumentation.|
Rovi