But the suggestion that her reasons for returning to her earlier work end there draws an impassioned response. Vega makes no attempt to hide the fact that the project was partly motivated by pragmatism, after she found herself with no record label and some of her albums going out of print. In the new recordings, her coolly insightful love songs have been stripped of extraneous production to reveal the sinew beneath. Twenty-five years since the unexpected success of her debut album paved the way for the likes of Feist, Cat Power and Beth Orton, Vega has begun a mission to rework her own back catalogue, starting with the album Close Up Volume 1: Love Songs. That’s what it’s like when you’re the global face of poetic neo-folk: Bono is your homeboy.
“I ran into Bono and he told me he was writing an opera,” says Suzanne Vega, halfway through an explanation of her song Rock In This Pocket.
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