Blog: Direct Current

She may not be the safe and predictable girl that you bring home to meet the parents, but we love Russky-Brooklynite Regina Spektor for many reasons: the odd time signatures, the slightly warped melodies, the unpredictably squirrelly twists and turns that repel and ingratiate simultaneously. Spektor's delightfully off-center 2006 album Begin To Hope was just the kind of oddball pop remedy that we needed desperately at the time (and still do): highly theatrical, daring music that combined Tori Amos-styled-piano blood-letting with completely beguiling and original songs that warbled and crowed their ways into our hearts. Tracks [...]