And then, at a certain point, if you don’t look out, you become a bad-postured adult, and you have all this pain in your body.

You can have bad posture when you’re a teenager and you’re fine. Something of New York gets less New Yorky when things like that happen, in the same way that, for humans, things tend to get out of hand, and then you start looking back, like, “Where did it go wrong?” I always think about posture. Regina Spektor: I get so bummed when great places like that close. The FADER: The last time I saw you play was when you did this wonderfully intimate set at Rough Trade in Williamsburg, R.I.P. We discussed the nebulous nature of inspiration, what’s revealed in her dad’s “bootlegged” camcorder archives, how the #MeToo movement galvanized a reframing of the past, and what, exactly, the deal is with Regina Spektor Day. And on Friday, she’ll reissue her 2002 debut, 11:11, along with a box set of unreleased early recordings titled Papa’s Bootlegs.Įarlier this week, I caught up with Spektor, who, in conversation as in song, skips from one unexpected tangent to another.

In June, Spektor returned with her first album in six years: Home, before and after, recorded at the height of the pandemic in a converted church just outside Woodstock, New York. All of which is to say, her music is part of the fabric of pop culture. She’s lent her music to to countless classics: from Girls to Grey’s Anatomy, Sex Education to 500 Days of Summer, the opening of Orange is the New Black to the end credits of Bombshell, and even The Hamilton Mixtape. Spektor’s songs - which reveal slice-of-life truisms wrapped in fanciful storytelling - have won the singer an ardent fan base, not to mention powerful syncs for film and TV. The classically trained pianist’s talents were forged in Russia and blossomed in the Bronx - her DIY explorations in the early aughts, Lower East Side indie rock scene evolving into her current brand of widescreen, orchestra-embellished hits.

With each of Regina Spektor’s eight albums, the Moscow-born singer has solidified her unique place in the pop pantheon.

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