While her lyrics are all over the map her piano playing is wildly addicting and it adds another dimension to her music. It's not generic and listening to it I can tell Regina had a fun time writing and making this beautiful music. I think that's what makes this album work so well. Her lyrics don't really make a lot of sense most of the time and it seems like she just wrote about a bunch of words down and threw them together into song.
Especially in her album, which is also her undisputed masterpiece, 'Soviet Kitsch'. Regina Spektor seems like a pretty cool chick and I think it shows a lot in her music.
For me this record is excellent but it is without a legitimate comparison. Spektor plays music on the piano, but she writes her music for the soul. Spektor is beyond pale in the tracks listed, but she stumbles elsewhere on this album, which may adversely affect some listener's interpretations of this album. Regina Spektor is one of the few artists that truly inspires - whether it be inspiration for hope (as in 'Chemo Limo') or love (as in 'Us').
'life ain't kitsch but a phat Regina' - king Vendrick Lamar I don't know why make me happy, for you sing about a lot of sad stuff.
