Regina Spektor won me over by embracing a poppier side on her fourth studio album Begin To Hope, but as previously noted, she lost me by attempting to recreate that success for the follow-up Far. Quirky can be good when it happens naturally! However, too much quirkiness is the equivalent of getting locked in a room with a million Zooey Deschanels, who are each trying to be more “adorkable” than their fellow clones.
The good news? There are no dolphin noises (so far) on Spektor’s sixth release What We Saw From The Cheap Seats. The bad news? There’s yet to be a track as immediately grabbing as “Fidelity” or some of the singer-songwriter’s earlier, more dramatic work.
In my opinion, “Small Town Moon” is the best of the three songs currently available for the public’s listening pleasure, though it’s recently come to my attention that some people actually enjoy the lead single “All The Rowboats”. To each his own! What are your thoughts on Regina’s latest output?
– Dewitt
Click through to watch the music video for “All The Rowboats”:
Listen to Regina’s second single “Don’t Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas)” here.
Ugh for Zoey Daschanel.
I like the row boat song…but I generally like me some Spektor, like Tori Amos and Fiona Apple had a baby.
I love her music to death and Don’t Leave Me is as infectious as ebola. *sigh*
Yeah, “All the Rowboats” was kind of a reject song from years ago, I’m surprised it even got pro-studio treatment, let alone first-single status. “Small Town Moon” is good, but I agree that it’s not as urgent or convincing as anything on “Begin to Hope.” All of these songs I’ve heard live before, in, like, 2007 or so ~ is she just not writing anything new? I still adore her and wish her godspeed, but some creative spark seems to have gotten lost since she struck it big, forcing her to resort to her old dollar-a-pound bin of songs..
the song bar under regina’s pic is the new fiona apple song isn’t it?
It shouldn’t be?
Just in case: http://soundcloud.com/reginaspektor/small-town-moon