Regina Spektor

Advantages: Evocative lyrics, interesting sound
Disadvantages: Not always easy to listen to

...think I'd ever heard of Regina Spektor. After some investigation, and listening to some excerpts off Amazon, I decided to buy her album "Begin to Hope", and its one of the best purchase I've ever made. From research on the Internet, and what I can hear on this album, she had classical training on the piano, and uses it extensively. How this type of background got her into the American Anti-Folk scene is beyond me, but the combination is simply intoxicating. ...
...defeat the Israelite revolt. Here, Regina uses this story to parallel a love affair, starting with the words "you are my sweetest downfall, I loved you first". Without actually telling us in so many words, we understand that her cutting off his hair doesn't completely work as it should, through the words "Samson came back to bed, not much hair upon his head, ate a slice of wonder bread and came right back to bed". Here, the significance of the wonder ... Read review