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With Home, Before and After, Spektor surely proves she is a songwriter for the ages.
90
Yes, there are some shortcomings—since there seem to be more slow songs than one might expect considering her more recent releases. However, each track segues well into the next one and creates an overall sweet and tender listening experience.
88
The reason why she has risen to the top like cream is her combination of simplicity and complexity, heartbreak and belief, and ultimately, her amazing way with sounds and words. It is an album with all hit-worthy songs on it, and something, like her Begin To Hope album, that I think people will be playing and replaying for years.
80
Odd, fun, smart, and fearless throughout.
80
Onto her eighth album, the New York artist’s creativity hasn’t been diluted for the mainstream at all.
80
Musician’s new album continues her search for the perfect alt pop song.
80
Sincerity made entertaining through quirks, pathos and orchestral backing.
80
Regina Spektor continues to refine her writing style with songs that contain grand truths expressed with the simplest of words. Just don’t let the simplicity of some of these arrangements pass you by.
80
It successfully adds another wrinkle to her sound with the addition of sweeping string sections, majestic brass horns, and epic flourishes.
80
Swinging feverishly between elevated pop and bombastic tales, Home once again finds Spektor working in a dimension where genre doesn’t exist.
80
The singer-songwriter's first album in six years soars with the confidence of an artist who's comfortable creating a world of her own.
78
She may still be trying to find the right balance between her larger soundscape and storytelling, but Home, before and after is an exciting evolution that feels both old and new.
70
The album is spiked with humor and pathos, and Spektor holds the two in balance as skillfully as she ever has.
70
If you too are waiting for the day when Regina Spektor finally finds just the right balance between her laterday tendency to the oversweet and overproduced and the complex, classically influenced wildness that flourishes in the dark comers of her records, well, today may not be that day.
70
This incisive, empathetic collection is among her strongest.
70
At their best, the songs of Home feel akin to a warm hug on a cold day; a soothing balm from a sensitive songwriter who unlike many of her indie peers is still capable of finding wonder in the everyday, and hope in the wider world and in music itself.
66
Regina Spektor’s first album in six years is weighty and ambitious, full of sweeping string arrangements and cosmic ruminations on love and loss.
60
It's when Spektor is less showy and more direct that her songs are most affecting.
60
'Home, before and after' is pervaded by solid songwriting and a truckload of additional instrumentation that might prove to be a dealbreaker for some.
long before the current plague of "viral" sensations, when the internet was in its infancy, or at least its toddler-hood, you had to do it different to be a DIY star. I always think of Regina Spektor as the OG in this regard. playing tons of free shows, selling her homemade CD's hand-to-hand, and even touring and opening for The Strokes before she even had a sniff of a record deal, she was the real deal.
now in her maturity as a songwriter and a performer, that exciting element that ... read more
My god!Ela entregou tudo e ainda sim, é tão subestimada!
Eu fiquei impressionada com a qualidade da orquestração dos instrumentos e com a voz doce e angelical de Reginas e suas letras sábias e honestas.
Eu adorei seu tom experimental, sua doçura, o lado sombrio de algumas faixas, a forma como os violinos tornavam tudo mágico e ao mesmo tempo faz o ouvinte desmoronar .
É uma audição incrível, mas que, é preciso ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Becoming All Alone 4:18 | 86 |
| 2 | Up The Mountain 4:40 | 82 |
| 3 | One Man's Prayer 4:05 | 79 |
| 4 | Raindrops 3:09 | 75 |
| 5 | SugarMan 4:35 | 79 |
| 6 | What Might've Been 2:44 | 78 |
| 7 | Spacetime Fairytale 8:47 | 86 |
| 8 | Coin 5:23 | 88 |
| 9 | Loveology 5:16 | 85 |
| 10 | Through a Door 4:19 | 82 |
Total Length: 47 minutes
Year End Lists
| #37 | / | Good Morning America |
| #91 | / | Albumism |
| / | American Songwriter |
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1y
has a lot of lovely moments! i just forgot about so much of it, it's not as memorable as her earlier stuff but that could just be nostalgia goggles
1y
Some of you failed porcupine-ology in school and it shows when you talk.
Added on: February 22, 2022