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New Regina Spektor album!!!

The one and only Regina Spektor has finally revealed details about her upcoming album. Oh yes, it is coming. Let’s all take a moment and jump around in glee. Yes, glee. That is what you should feel at the sight of this news. That’s what I feel, at least.   

Slated for a June 2009 release, Far will be produced by David Kahne (who produced Begin to Hope), Mike Elizondo, Garret “Jacknife” Lee, and Jeff Lynne. 

There’s an interview with Spektor about the new album and producer dream-team over at Pitchfork.com.

Pitchfork: On the record, you worked with four producers with pretty different styles: Jeff Lynne, Mike Elizondo, “Jacknife” Lee, and David Kahne. Were you worried about creating a cohesive sound?

Regina Spektor: That question never entered my mind. I just thought, “I’ll work with a few producers, learn from each one, and I’ll have a record.” I’m pretty much stuck sounding like myself so it’s going to be cohesive in a way. And matching producers with songs was done kind of thoughtlessly– it wasn’t like I was sitting there thinking, “Well, this person would make more sense with this song.” I didn’t do research or anything like that. It’s almost like throwing stuff on the floor and seeing how it lands, you know?

Pitchfork: So you didn’t have any sort of grand scheme in mind, necessarily.

RS: I’d like to say I did but I really didn’t. With novels or operas or other grand works of art I’m like, “Wow, how the fuck did you do that?” I’m much more on the level of understanding how someone can draw a picture or write a poem or short story. I’m into immediate gratification. I have enough of an attention span to follow through on one concept…and then I’m bored. If artists were machines, then I’m just a different kind of machine.

Pitchfork: So if you were a machine you’d be, like, a toaster?

RS: [makes ding sound] Yeah, I’d probably be a toaster [laughs]. Actually, I’d be a toaster oven because they’re more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese.

Check out the rest of the interview (more good bits of Regina being funny) right here. For those of you short on time (or perhaps just lazy?), the interview mentions “Genius Next Door”(!!!!!!!!), “Folding Chair”(!!!!!!), and “The Wallet”(!!!!!!!!) as album contenders!! The beauty of new Regina Spektor albums is not only getting some new material (“The Calculation”?), but also getting songs that we’ve all loved as bootlegs for years as proper studio recordings. 

According to a new blog post, Spektor also has plans to play summer festivals upon the release of Far, as well as tour the UK and Europe before hitting up the U.S. and Canada in the fall. 

Oh sweet excitement!

March 16, 2009 at 11:25 pm 3 comments