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Just What You Might ExSpektor

Regina Spektor’s new album, Far, was released online yesterday and should be on the shelves as of this morning. She took her time didn’t she? Her previous album Being to Hope dating back to 2006.

Spektor, born in Russia to a Jewish family and raised in the Bronx trained as a classical pianist in Manhattan. She traveled extensively in her childhood which lends itself to her quirky misplaced singing accent. She is in my opinion, the original and the best of those “quirky” songstresses who play and instrument and sing with an accent ala Kate Nash, Lilly Allen, Duffy and Corinne Bailey Rae.

While Far lacks something of what Begin to Hope had and doesn’t have anything in the same league of the beautiful Samson it is a lovely sweet enjoyable album and merited the third play this morning.

Samson

The stand out songs on the album are the a-typical bittersweet Spektor songs such as Eet, Laughing With and One More Time With Feeling.

Over all, me liksies!