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bgillesp
July 6th 2022


8867 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Great album! Someone please tell me I’m not the only one who thought of YGOTAS during Up The Mountain

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
July 6th 2022


26231 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7

What

Odal
Staff Reviewer
July 7th 2022


2100 Comments


Finally jammed this, I am absolutely loving it. There's definitely some inconsistency, but my first listen has captivated me for most of its runtime. Her highs are dizzying enough to make any sort of "valley" more of a reprieve than anything. And those "valleys" aren't even bad, just less good lol

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
July 7th 2022


26231 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7

1. Remember Us to Life

2. Soviet Kitsch

3. Begin to Hope

4/5. What We Saw…/Far

6. this



Need to relisten to her first two but they still ain’t on spotify ):

bgillesp
July 8th 2022


8867 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I still need to listen to most all of her work but I liked this more than Remember Us To Life

Cormano
July 8th 2022


4136 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"1. Remember Us to Life



2. Soviet Kitsch



3. Begin to Hope



4/5. What We Saw…/Far



6. this"



This is so sadly wrong



"Need to relisten to her first two but they still ain’t on spotify ):"



now that this is your excuse is fucking depressing



Gyromania
July 9th 2022


37141 Comments


far > everything else

this is okay. i find some of it catchy and fun, and some of it downright annoying. like up the mountain could have been a way better song, but her annoying, overused "gotta get up there, gotta get up there, gotta get up there" drags it down. really liked it during the "slow-down" bit and the bridge. that "like it or not i am coming up the mountain bit" just completely fucking kills the momentum of the track though. a handful of the songs on here have similarly grating moments that sort of kill them for me, but i kind of have this issue with regina in general and despite how highly it's praised, it's the reason i can't really get into societ kitsch and downright can't stand it at times.

Sowing
Moderator
July 9th 2022


43962 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I think Up the Mountain is basically perfect, it's a thrillingly fresh pop track. That song, Becoming All Alone Again, and Spacetime Fairytale are the three I wouldn't change at all from this. Sugarman is also pretty underrated, as are Coin and One Man's Prayer. Basically, my only issue with this album is that the songs either hit or they don't. Raindrops, What Might've Been, Loveology, and Through a Door were all noticeable misses for me, and that's 40% of the album.

Gyromania
July 9th 2022


37141 Comments


there's a section in up the mountain that i really love from like 3:00-3:20, when she sings "and another, and another" and it has that neat whispery layered effect to it. i love it when she gets experimental. i love the music in the track in general too, i just find that some sections are grating.

Sowing
Moderator
July 9th 2022


43962 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah that's fair enough, I just love it



if the whole album was wacky like that song, it'd be a 5 for me

ToSmokMuzyki
July 11th 2022


10932 Comments


regina spektor

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Shiranui
July 11th 2022


1045 Comments


Okay, i was not expecting that ending on Spacetime Fairytale. Loving the tap dance segment and the ideas that she uses in her transitions, the outros and the swells in general. Although her pacing seems so weird sometimes, it just.. works most of the time?

BigPleb
July 11th 2022


65784 Comments


Soviet Kitsch is her best work and it ain't even close.

Shiranui
July 11th 2022


1045 Comments


Oh my. That voice crack when she sings "forgive me-ology" has more personality and heart than most other pop musicians have in their entire discography.

I mean, disco-graphy.

Edit: I shouldn't call it voice crack as it's choice and part of her emotive way in expressing herself as an artist.

mvdu
July 20th 2022


992 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

As far as I’m concerned, she has only had 4.5 and 5 albums. Very, very consistent. Definitely one of the greats.

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
July 20th 2022


26231 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7

yeah i'll take a full album of "All the Rowboat"s and "Small Bill$"s and "Up the Mountain"s pls thanks

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
July 20th 2022


26231 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7

"now that this is your excuse is fucking depressing"

chill tf out bro

Demon of the Fall
July 20th 2022


33949 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

I prescribe a heavy dose of staying off the internet for anyone who's depression threshold / triggers are that damn low, blimey



Only just started listening to this lass properly, but making my way through her discog and liking what I am hearing



Up The Mountain is a blast



neekafat
Staff Reviewer
July 20th 2022


26231 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7

Up the Mountain is so dope but the weakest of those three werido tracks I listed above

Demon of the Fall
July 20th 2022


33949 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

enjoying Small Bill$



Which album is 'Rowboats' from?



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