Regina Spektor-Far
Release date: June 23, 2009
Label: Sire
Reviewed by: Stephen Tompkins
Far, is the Fifth studio album, and third major-label-release from Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor, who emerged from the anti-folk scene prominent in New York City’s East Village with her debut major-label-record, 2004’s Soviet Kitsch. Far, was released June 23, 2009.
Far, is comprised of 13 songs, and sees Spektor switching between solemn-toned ballads and poppy piano diddys, with almost every other song. The solemn-tone comes full-force in “Blue Lips,” where she croons, “Blue, the most human color/ Blue lips, blue veins/Blue, the color of our planet/From far, far away.”
The piano diddys come into play in such songs as “The Calculation,” but namely, “Folding Chair,” where she proves that piano parts don’t have to be extremely intricate to be appreciated (trust me, she could write an intricate piece if she wanted, she attended Manhattan School of Music and studied classical piano.)
In “Folding Chair,” she makes sarcastic and funny comments like “Let’s get a silver bullet trailer and have a baby boy/I’ll safety-pin his clothes all cool and you’ll grafitti up his toys, which channels the playfulness of found in Begin To Hope’s “That Time.”
“Dance Anthem of the ‘80s,” is just that, it comes loaded with quirky ‘80s-esque beats, and the lyrics are just as ridiculous, “There's a meat market down the street/The boys and the girls watch each other eat/You are so sweet, so sweet/Dancing and moving to that beat, that beat.”
With Spektor’s ability to write playful and serious songs, and successfully meld them on the same album, it should come as no surprise to anyone, that she has come as far as she has.
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