Far (2009) Album Review
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Entertainment Weekly
On a quirkiness scale, Regina Spektor ranks just above rainbow suspenders. It's her jaunty piano rags, which beg someone to dance the Charleston. Or perhaps it's that, on Far 's ''Folding Chair,'' she literally sings like a dolphin. Read more about Far on Entertainment Weekly
Rolling Stone
Spektor is a woman who doesn't need much excuse to have an emotional Chernobyl (in one song, it's finding a wallet with a Blockbuster card in it). But she's also the rare screwball who gets more universal as she gets weirder. Read more about Far on Rolling Stone
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Entertainment Weekly
On a quirkiness scale, Regina Spektor ranks just above rainbow suspenders. It's her jaunty piano rags, which beg someone to dance the Charleston. Or perhaps it's that, on Far 's ''Folding Chair,'' she literally sings like a dolphin. But
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Spin
After opening with ivory wisps of the sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen," she quickly guns it back to the islands, unfurling a balmy new melody like a beach towel. Just in time for summer.
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Slant Magazine
Here she leaves behind the flaky-as-adorable posturing long enough to salvage Far from its role as capricious sideshow, and so, too, long enough for listeners to get a glimpse of the songwriting talent that lurks beneath the peculiarity.
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