Regina Spektor!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Spektor

Weird but really damn good music. Sort of like Bjork and Jewel mixed together. Her music is described as 'anti-folk', which apparently is a mix of punk and folk. A lot of the songs are sparsely arranged, with just a piano accompanying her voice.

She's a really experimentative singer, singing one way in this song and a totally different way in the next. Of course the fact that she has a really good voice gives her the leeway to do that.. I think she's the only singer I ever heard where at the end of one song she actually sneezes. (In 'Mary Ann', a song about a woman murdering her lover.)

Get her latest album 'Begin To Hope' and listen to the song "Samson". Really beautiful song. The rest of the album is superb also.

She's released a few albums already, but impossible to get them here lar, unless you go the you know what route

Outstanding songs (not all from the same album)-

From Begin To Hope- Samson, Fidelity, Lady (basically the whole album is good except for one or two songs)

From earlier albums- Carbon Monoxide, Oedipus, Pavlov's Daughter etc etc (too many to list)

I don't get it why we don't get more of this type of music on local radio. If I hear Hips Don't Lie *one* more time I might just strangle myself.

This post has been edited by kyl: Dec 13 2006, 03:26 AM

At first I thought it wasn't anything special, but it's the kind of album that grows on you. Their music is indie folk, the songs mostly driven by guitars.

I love their lyrics. Each song tells a story- The Crane Wife is based on the folk tale about a poor fisherman rescuing a crane who returns in human form and marries the fisherman to repay her debt.

After hearing this I checked out their earlier albums. 'Picaresque' and 'Castaways and Cutouts'- the songs (especially on Picaresque) are even better imho