What We Saw from the Cheap Seats

AlbumMay 25 / 201211 songs, 36m 52s
Singer-Songwriter Chamber Pop
Popular
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Now six albums into her career, Regina Spektor presents both her sentimentalism and her more childlike qualities with a certain defiance.

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It’s not that Regina Spektor is struggling, goodness knows. She records for a major label, her albums sell well worldwide, and her songs regularly get licensed to movies and television. But new chanteuses keep popping up to steal her spotlight: some as quirky as Spektor, and some as virtuosic, but none as singular.…

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Regina Spektor songs typically either leave you weeping in the fetal position or running for the door. The Russian-born NYC…

Check out our album review of Artist's What We Saw From the Cheap Seats on Rolling Stone.com.

Regina Spektor's sixth outing, the predictably unpredictable What We Saw from the Cheap Seats, feels a little like a Wes Anderson movie.

Regina Spektor's exquisite chamber pop would be more lovable without the kookiness, says <strong>Ally Carnwath</strong>

Beneath the yelps, gasps, and exaggerated accents, Regina Spektor is a romantic.

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Regina Spektor - What We Saw from the Cheap Seats review: What we saw from the cheap seats was Regina Spektor release another album. What we heard was her best effort yet.

Quirky Brooklynite's fifth album makes up in loveliness what it lacks in coherency. CD review by Lisa-Marie Ferla