Regina Spektor - Laughing With

Spektor has a lot to answer for. Begin to Hope’s full scale assault on the popular consciousness drove so many breathy derivatives out of the plinky plonky Brit School woodwork that a mass scale asthma inhaler wouldn’t have gone amiss in the summer of 2007. Laughing With comes as the first glimmering porthole into the hotly anticipated follow up album, Far. The sparse, intelligent lyrics belie a collection that’ll no doubt kick off another spate of observational pop ditties, leaving Amy, Kate and Jane Beige to once again fall short of the kitschy hooks and piano narratives for which Spektor has become renowned.