Album of the day (#1995): Begin To Hope by Regina Spektor

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Today's album of the day

Begin To Hope by Regina Spektor (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 2006.
Country:
Overall rank: 1,291
Average rating: 77/100 (from 142 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Fidelity
2. Better
3. Samson
4. On The Radio
5. Field Below
6. Hotel Song
7. Apres Moi
8. 20 Years Of Snow
9. That Time
10. Edit
11. Lady
12. Summer In The City

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inb4 "quirky"

[Allabaster]

Dear Regina gets dragged kicking and stuttering into the mainstream. It is arranged like a pop album, with the more accessible material stacked at the beginning and her less conventional songs at the end, but the whole feels very uneven for me. I find her vocal idiosyncrasies make more sense in her earlier albums, where she seems less restrained and smoothed over. Songs especially is very beautiful.

[FatalIn10sity]

This says she is American, but I thought she was born in Russia to Russian parents.

[carpents]

I love this album -- it was the first Regina Spektor that I universally liked. Her earlier albums (to me) seemed uneven but this one improved considerably. Funny and quirky lyrics.

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