Begin to Hope
Third album from the intelligent, eccentric singer-songwriter is her first recorded under major-label contract.
Quietly released in 2004, then rolled out by a larger label in 2005, Regina Spektor's Soviet Kitsch is the kind of eye-opening album that only comes around once in a while. It's not that it's perfect, or that Spektor attempts something that's never been done before. (Anyone wanting to trace her influences could easily…
With the possible exception of “That Time,” with its repetitive, Alanis-style lyrics, there’s an underlying hope to Regina Spektor’s music.
Plucked strings conversate with growly chunks of piano before they slide smoothly together, only to cut out for wordlessly-light vocalizations and gentle...