Regina Spektor Review: Cheap Seats, Sick Beats

Regina Spektor

What We Saw From the Cheap Seats

I don’t know if female singer-songwriter is really a particular genre of music because female singer-songwriters can span many genres.  Either way, I really have a thing for female singer-songwriters.  A few, like Cat Power, Joanna Newsom, Fiona Apple, and Jenny Lewis have never done anything to substantially turn me off throughout their careers.  Regina Spektor, on the other hand, released Far as her follow-up to the wonderful 2006’s Begin to Hope.  Far managed to temper a lot of the anticipation I may have had for her fourth major release, What We Saw From the Cheap Seats.