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The comparisons to Tori Amos or Bjork or Kate Bush or Fiona Apple (or Laura Nyro or Joni Mitchell to go back a ways) are more points of reference to give us some bearing regarding Regina Spektor's eccentric and original Soviet Kitsch. Hey, she's a chick with a piano and a quirky sense of timing and a refreshing lyrical oddness. Aren't they all the same, then? Well, no. Spektor's take on the singer-songwriter trope certainly includes those forebears, but she's also steeped in punk history, wherein she quotes Patti Smith on "Poor Little Rich Boy", and isn't afraid of squawking dissonance. Which makes the unadulterated beauty all the sweeter -- especially on the manic "Us" and the expressive "Someday", either of which the above-mentioned women would love to have in their own canons.
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posted:Tue Oct 30 00:00:00 PST 2007
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