Quirky Musician Finds Herself in New Album

Quirky Musician Finds Herself in New Album

Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009- Arts & Entertainment The Mirror 7 Quirky musician finds herself in new album Ale._ night talk shows; her songs were Spektor brings back many old herself again with セ f 。 N B Some VASQUEZ featured on commercials and fan favorites with a new twist. might be thrown off by the ''Far'' television shows; and her music When I saw songs like セ ッ ャ 、 ゥ ョ ァ sound of Spektor imitating a video for セ f ゥ ・ ャ ゥ エ ケ B got nonstop Chair," "Dance Anthem of the dolphin or the fact that she gives 1. "THE CALcuI..AnON" ...... -.• - play on VHI . '80s" and "Blue _ __... a synthesizer a solo, 2. ''EET'' What a lot of people don't Ups" on the track but I think most regina , pektor 3. "BLUE liPs" know is that セ b ・ ァ ゥ ョ to h ッ ・ セ listing, J was both will just be pleas- 4- "FOLDING CHAms" was actually Spektor's fourth delighted and con- antly surprised at 5. "MAcmNE" full-length album and her sec- cerned. The prob- the twists and turns egina Speklor has pro- ond album to be released on a lem that many fans each of her songs 6. "LAUGHING Wrrn" duced what is proba- major label. Mter all of the had with Spcktor's takes. Although her 7. "HUMAN OF TIlE YEAR" Rbly her most success- セ ゥ ・ ャ エ B ゥ ョ オ 」 ・ 、 hype died "Begin to h ッ ・ セ songs are much 8. 'Two BIRDS" ful blend of quirky and polished down, Spektor went back to was that she more refined than g. "DANCE ANrnEM OF music with her latcst album doing what she does best: being seemed to lose hPO' • • __1 just a piano and TIlE '80s" "Far, セ released in July 2009. weird and relatively unknown. self a little. To new listeners she vocals - thanks to her big name Wail, does anybody even While most listeners forgot seemed very quirky and strange, producers Mike Elizondo, 10. "GENIUS NEXT remember Speklor? Al i lhe way about her as soon as she fe ll off but to the people who fell in Jacknife Lee, Jeff Lynne and DooR" back in 2006, she had a single the radar, true SpektOf fans, love with her live recordings, in David Kah ne - her lyrics still 11. ''WAlLET'' セ called MF idelity_ I know that such as me, waited in anticipa- which she would literally burp hold the power to penetrate 12. "ONE MORE TIME m ight be a li ttle bit 100 far back tion fo r three years for her next or hiccup into the microphone deeper than the surface. wrrn i'EELING" for some of you because in album to drop. Let me just say as a part of the song, it kind of - Alexandria Vasquez is a music years, that was, like, a that the wait was definitely Datlined. junior human services major and 13. "MAN OF A century ago, but bear with me. worth it. Spektor has definitely fo und an arts & entertainment writer THOUSAND FA=" Her album, -Begin to Hope,· With "Far," Spektor is fin ally climbed all the way from num- able to successfull y straddle that ber 70 to number 20 on the somewhat shady line between Billboard 200. After that song quirky and strange. Al though was released, Spektor was every- this is indeed the fifth studio where. She perfonncd on late album of her burgeoning career, s t. " 7pm- Bam, n;nn 10J1IIl IiJIa1lx p セ G J L 9th st & 9th AYe The Friday N{5ht Edition yresents Ben Pu & crew brats beer foe mltSfc fret gillfttS GtntfJlJ! foods kill's 'IIorld craft vendors G ?" . IThe Friday Edition sponsored by: セ i セ セ o a i e b I DOWNTOWN G e A A Z セ セ .. " ...... G N G セ .. ,. reeley I:J NCMC. loc. HIPIIh <D .... NatIonc:O Bank $ 1II·1IU セ セ pi i ヲ ゥ ャ ャ ャ ュ O i [ Z Z Z セ セ [ _ [ セ B .. och;!! B イ セ t ィ ゥ 「 u ・ .

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