- rock, indie rock, general indie pop
- 37 min
- 11 tracks
- Sire Records
What We Saw from the Cheap Seats is the sixth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Regina Spektor. On November 21, 2011, Spektor posted on her Facebook page that the album had been recorded with Mike Elizondo in Los Angeles during the summer of 2011. It was released on May 29, 2012. The album is a collection of new material alongside the first studio recordings of several songs Spektor had previously only performed live.
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Spare, contemporary, classical in form and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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Metacritic 73/100
- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The A.V. Club(A-)
- Consequence of Sound3.5/5 ★
- Entertainment Weekly(B)
- NME(8/10)
- Ology(A-)
- Pitchfork(6.3/10)
- Paste Magazine(6/10)
- Rolling Stone3.5/5 ★
- Slant Magazine4/5 ★
- Sputnikmusic5/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Small Town Moon3:03
- 2Oh Marcello2:39
- 3Don’t Leave Me (Ne me quitte pas)3:40
- 4Firewood4:55
- 5Patron Saint3:40
- 6How4:48
- 7All the Rowboats3:35
- 8Ballad of a Politician2:14
- 9Open4:31
- 10The Party2:28
- 11Jessica1:45
11 tracks, 37 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Regina Spektor
- Label
- Sire Records
- Released
- 2012
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- CA
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