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Tracklist (CD)
| 1 | | Ode To Divorce | | 3:43 | | 2 | | Poor Little Rich Boy | | 2:28 | | 3 | | Carbon Monoxide | | 5:00 | | 4 | | The Flowers | | 3:55 | | 5 | | Us | | 4:52 | | 6 | | Sailor Song | | 3:15 | | 7 | | * * * | | 0:45 |
See more tracks| 8 | | Your Honor | | 2:10 | | 9 | | Ghost Of Corporate Future | | 3:22 | | 10 | | Chemo Limo | | 6:05 | | 11 | | Somedays | | 3:22 |
* Items below may differ depending on the release.
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Review
A young New York singer-songwriter who was plucked from obscurity and taken on tour by the Strokes in 2003, Regina Spektor has a winsome voice that brings to mind a more tuneful Bjork, and she plays the piano with some of Tori Amos' virtuosic intensity. On Soviet Kitsch, Spektor (who emigrated from the Soviet Union when she was nine) demonstrates a knack for sweetly nostalgic melodies that are as sad-eyed as the smile she often flashes in photographs. Her lyrics teeter on the edge of preciousness without falling in, as on "Poor Little Rich… Read More Boy," where she sings of a teenage character, "You're reading Fitzgerald, you're reading Hemingway/They're both supersmart and drinking in the cafes." Spektor's cabaret shtick occasionally wears thin, but Kitsch's highlights ("The Flowers," "Carbon Monoxide") have an appealing honesty that can't be faked.
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