{"product_id":"regina-spektor-songs-blue-white","title":"Regina Spektor - Songs [Blue \u0026 White]","description":"\u003cp\u003eRegina Spektor recorded Songs at the piano in a single day, and every take still feels like it is happening in the room. This indie-exclusive pressing comes on blue and white vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer second album, released in 2002, was cut in its entirety on Christmas Day 2001, each song captured in one take. Self-released and sold at her early live shows, it spent years as a cherished rarity among fans who had caught her in small rooms. It captures the moment just before the wider world found her, raw and already unmistakably her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe arrangements are just voice and piano, which leaves her phrasing nowhere to hide and no reason to. \"Samson\", later re-recorded for Begin To Hope, appears here in its earliest and barest form, while \"Prisoners\" and \"Oedipus\" show off her knack for stories that swerve from comic to devastating within a verse. She closes with a stark reading of Jacques Brel's \"Ne Me Quitte Pas\", sung with a quiet intensity that hushes everything around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are no studio tricks softening anything, only a remarkable young writer at the keys, playing as if nobody had told her what the rules were.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who fell for Spektor through her later records, this is the origin story, and it holds up beautifully.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67763358073122,"sku":"093624842507","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/2080\/8994\/files\/Regina_Spektor-Songs_Blue_White.jpg?v=1794323985","url":"https:\/\/soulfulvinyl.com\/products\/regina-spektor-songs-blue-white","provider":"Soulful Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}