So for the past few months… actually it has been longer than that I would think, my wife and I bought Regina Spektor’s new album “Far”. I listened to her older album “Begin to Hope” but it was really my wife who listened to it the most. There are a few songs I would listen to on my own but mostly the songs I heard off that album were because of Jen playing it or Tim and Meagan playing it. It wasn’t that I did not like it, it was that I just would not ever think of playing it. Of course on the way home from Asheville after buying the new album Jen played it without stopping and then loaded it on to her ipod immediately after getting home. Since she had it on her ipod I decided to take the cd for my truck. For weeks it stayed in my cd player and I listened to it for a long time. Actually Tim made a joke to me about it still playing in my cd player. I LOVE IT! I have listened to it over and over and I still love it. The songs themselves are really good and simple, even the production is really simple and not overbearing. It is not trying to be the most complicated or the most artistic and for me it makes it more interesting and gives it more re-listen value. Her voice is also insanely creative and beautiful. It kind of reminds me of music that would of been released years ago instead of last year. Seems that today music is more about how many instruments you can record together to create a song that can never be reproduced live or that has no dynamic because the song is not good enough by itself to begin with. Yes, in case you are wondering, I am not a huge fan of some of the music that is released today but this cd is extremely worth buying and listening to. The songs are great, her voice is great, her piano playing is great, the production is great, really it is all great. There are great upbeat songs and very emotional songs. I guess something for everyone.
steven.
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