David's World

February 18, 2007

Regina Spektor makes David happy

Among the things that made me happy this Month is Regina Spektor's latest album "Begin to Hope". My friends just call her "the screaming woman", but I have to say that she screams a hell lot better than Tori Amos. And she screams so much more interestingly!

Having listened to her past albums, I'd say Begin to Hope is a little less experimental than "Songs" and a little more trying to please than "Eleven Eleven", but nonetheless strange and novel and surprising enough: Yes, her music makes me happy, but there's also enough left to discover to make me want to listen to it again. What I like: she doesn't establish one "regina" style. She's not turning something into a scheme just because it works well - every song is different, nothing follows folk patterns. A step ahead of great artists like Ani DiFranco or Björk.

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
He ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed (Samson)

(Fidelity)