What We Saw from the Cheap SeatsRegina Spektor · 2012

rollingstone

7.0

“Spiking piano-driven songs of heartbreak with comic turns of phrase, cartoon voices and beatboxing outbursts, Regina Spektor has become her generation’s Joni Mitchell – a singer-songwriter who nail-guns emotional truths between wisecracks. Her latest, even tighter and more flamboyant than 2009’s Far, may be her best. Exhibit A: "Firewood," which treats mortal illness (a recurring […]”

pitchfork

6.3

“Now six albums into her career, Regina Spektor presents both her sentimentalism and her more childlike qualities with a certain defiance.”