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What We Saw from the Cheap Seats

Item: What We Saw from the Cheap Seats
Rating: 7
Author: allmusic

Regina Spektor (2012)

7.0/ 10

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pitchfork

Now six albums into her career, Regina Spektor presents both her sentimentalism and her more childlike qualities with a certain defiance.

6.3

rollingstone

Spiking piano-driven songs of heartbreak with comic turns of phrase, cartoon voices and beatboxing outbursts, Regina Spektor has become her generation's Joni Mitchell – a singer-songwriter who nail-guns emotional truths between wisecracks. Her latest, even tighter and more flamboyant than 2009's Far, may be her best. Exhibit A: "Firewood," which treats mortal illness (a recurring […]

7.0