Retronaut Selects: Regina Spektor - What We Saw From The Cheap Seats (2012)

Published on 29 March 2019 at 10:06

The second album that expanded my music taste was Regina Spektor’s 2012 masterpiece, “What We Saw From The Cheap Seats”. This was an album that showed me that I didn’t have to isolate myself by listening to one genre.

Initially, I didn’t get into this album as a whole. I recall liking certain songs, but it all comes back to my weird obsession over tempo instead of a message in a song. The day I listened to this album again after hearing Coliseum Rock, things changed.

I could love a rock album and a singer-songwriter album. Not only that, but I could love something released in 1978 and something released in 2012. There were no boundaries. I could love whatever I wanted and my open minded musical landscape began to emerge.

This Regina Spektor album is amazing because it’s so lovely. Regina Spektor is versatile. You see this lady who plays piano, but she does all kinds of cool vocal things and they add an interesting quality to her music because it is what makes her music unique.

You can hear it in songs like “All The Rowboats” and “Ballad Of A Politician” too.

There’s album is an experience, and meant to be listened to in full. This is what we saw from the cheap seats.


Essential Tracks: Small Town Moon, Patron Saint, All The Rowboats

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