Regina Spektor - What We Saw From the Cheap Seats
Like Zooey Deschanel, Spektor is heavily represented by the media as a quirky ball of fun that's captured the hearts of hipsters with her eccentricities and stunning natural beauty. Regina Spektor's back catalogue is often, too, described as wildly out-there and whilst there are, undeniably, elements of anti-folk with jagged brushstrokes, this seems like an unfair portrayal. The fact is beneath all of the politics and unusual structures, Spektor has coined excellently simple and beautiful songs. Fidelity , her biggest success of a single so far, was an upbeat romantic popsong at its purest, and Samson was as breathtakingly poignant and adorable as music gets. Considering other tracks of Spektor's have soundtracked (500) Days of Summer and In Bruges there comes the argument: has indie folk, with its British counterparts including Kate Nash and Laura Marling, become so popular that its eccentricities and USP are now redundant? Spektor's 6th studio album contains o...