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Begin To Hope is the 2006 CD by Regina Spektor. Released on 13 June, 2006, this featured the singles 'Better', 'Summer In The City', 'On The Radio' and the surprise hit 'Fidelity', which helped the album become gold in the United States (500,000 copies).

Plucked strings conversate with growly chunks of piano before they slide smoothly together, only to cut out for wordlessly-light vocalizations and gentle handclaps. Then comes the voice, warm and childishly pure though traced at the edges with experience. It’s a clear and beautiful voice, but one that has been mastered and grown into, that can turn at will to emotional cracking or dauntless vibrato. “This is how it works / It feels a little worse / Than when we drove our hearse / Right through that screaming crowd / While laughing up a storm,” she sings, adding later, “And all the styrofoam / Began to melt away / We tried to find some worms / To aid in the decay”. It’s a sublimely perfect gem of a pop song, but the lyrics are entirely unique, a nearly-absurdist parade of logically-unrelated images that somehow build to a perfect mood. It’s catchy and unexpectedly touching; it reaches inside of you, and carves itself a space.
“On the Radio” is only one of many examples of such songwriting. Regina Spektor is an anomaly within the music world: a product of the New York café scene who sounds like exactly nobody else in the New York café scene and a star of the anti-folk movement whose music is only somewhat anti-folk. Over the course of countless live performances, two independent albums, and a major-label debut, she has earned herself a reputation as one of the most unique, quirky, experimental, and downright transcendent singer-songwriters working today. She plays piano with the skill of years of classical training, but her compositions are distinctly different, idiosyncratic and human, and she is a consummate performer. She can build emotion with a single vocal flourish like no other, and her sometimes startlingly personal musical sketches often travel surprising distances as they twist and turn. She’s come a way since her recklessly freewheeling early recordings, which featured everything from stretches of complete atonality to manic bursts of rapping and guttural singing, but rather than trade in her fierce independence as her profile has grown, she’s instead learned to control it, to twist it into what look at first glance like beautiful, conventional pop songs but gradually spiral into whole new realms.
While her first albums often featured only piano, vocals, and sometimes jazzy string bass, producer David Kahne takes Begin to Hope in a new direction. Soviet Kitsch could feel almost frenetically bipolar at times, tracks like the electric-guitar duet with Kill Kenada not quite meshing with the softer piano ballads, but Begin to Hope adds elements like guitar and beautifully lilting string arrangements while at the same time making sure they mesh perfectly, making for a more natural-feeling progression. The album-opening first single “Fidelity” is a perfect example. Spektor is her pitch-perfect self, but the piano has been replaced by subtly-building synths and gorgeous strings. It’s like a favorite food cooked by a different talented chef: familiar, slightly changed, freshly wonderful.
And while the album may initially seem less willing to take risks than its predecessors because of songs like the Stroke-featuring pure pop of “Better” and the sparklingly processed album artwork (contrasted with the borderline-tasteless kitsch of Soviet), this is a misleading judgement. There’s nothing to be found along the lines of the abrupt tempo changes of “Chemo Limo”, certainly, but many of the songs play around more with their arrangements, and even her most seemingly-bubblegum confections are often subverted by their lyrics and delivery. “Hotel Song” is the most brightly irresistable pop song to never chart, not only for surreal lines like “I have dreams of orca whales and owls, but I wake up in fear” but for the joyously crowed hook that begins, “A little bag of cocaine, a little bag of cocaine / So who’s the girl wearing my dress”. “That Time” likewise begins with an energetic guitar loop while Spektor growls her lyrics with arrogant assurance, spiking it with things like an absurd squeal of “so cheap and juicy!”. Then, once you think you’ve got it figured out, she pulls back suddenly to a near-whisper. “Hey, remember that time when you OD’ed / Hey, remember that other time when you OD’ed…for a second time,” she states softly, and it’s a surprising emotional punch.
On “20 Years of Snow”, shimmery-tinkly curtains of musicbox sound fade into beautifully complex glides of piano chords, and Spektor builds her gorgeous vocals off of this almost arrhythmic base while making it sound completely natural. “Apres Moi” is another highlight, a thunderously dark storm of piano and grunt-laced singing in multiple languages that crescendoes brilliantly to an ominous chorus. It’s telling that the lowest point of the disc is probably “Samson”, but only because the track appeared in an earlier form on her harder-to-find independent release Songs. There it was a gorgeously spare, emotionally wrenching piano ballad, just Regina and beautiful chords and her inscrutable but oddly touching lyrics. Here it’s been sped up, her voice is less vulnerable, and other instruments are added; either version is beautiful, and each fits its particular album better than the other, but the starker original version is somehow more touching. For newcomers to Spektor’s work, though, this version is still oddly haunting, retelling the familiar biblical story from the perspective of a loving, subtly regretful Delilah. “I cut his hair myself one night / A pair of dull scissors and the yellow light / And he told me that I’d done alright,” she sings, balancing poignantly the mythical and the mundane, referencing alternately the Bible’s crashing columns and Wonder Bread.
With a new album of expertly-crafted, touching, and refreshingly honest odes to life, Regina Spektor has grown without growing away from what makes her so special. Irreverent and innocent, theatrical and tender, cataclysmic and cute: human.

01. Fidelity
02. Better
03. Samson
04. On The Radio
05. Field Below
06. Hotel Song
07. Apres Moi
08. 20 Years Of Snow
09. That Time
10. Edit
11. Lady
12. Summer In The City
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regina spektor-vocals, piano
Nick Valensi-guitar on 'Better'
David Kahne-bass on 'Better'

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Zhao Gang-Er Hu on 'Field Below'
Ralph U. Williams-saxophone on 'Lady'
Shawn Pelton-drums on 'Better', 'On The Radio', 'Hotel Song', 'Apres Moi', 'That Time', and 'Fidelity'
Produced, Engineered, and Mixed by David Kahne
Co-Produced by regina spektor
Additional engineering by Craig Bishop
Assistant mix engineer: Will Hensely
Recorded and Mixed at SeeSquaredStudio, NYC
Additional Recording at New York Noise Studios, NYC
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering & DVD, Portland, Maine

On Begin to Hope, Regina Spektor treads a delicate balance between her anti-folk past and her present home on Sire Records. Though the label re-released Soviet Kitsch in 2004, Begin to Hope is Spektor's first original material for Sire, and it feels more like a major-label debut than Soviet Kitsch ever did. The album's big, glossy production and preponderance of drum machines and keyboards inches Spektor toward territory that isn't exactly mainstream, but is closer to a more conventional adult alternative singer/songwriter sound. Her songwriting mirrors this, too: 'Field Below,' which finds her wishing for the countryside while living in the city, has a mellow, appealingly rambling vibe that grows from the traditional singer/songwriter roots of Joni and Carole; 'Better' takes the breathy, literate, pretty side of Spektor's music and tailors it into a radio-friendly single. 'On the Radio' takes it a step further and becomes a smart, funny, and sad meta-single, with lyrics like 'We listened to it twice/Because the DJ was asleep' backed by poppy synths and beats. But even though Begin to Hope's first few songs might suggest otherwise, Spektor is much too freewheeling and quirky a talent to stick to the straight and narrow for the entirety. Show tunes, classic soul, the Bible, and the backs of cereal boxes are all inspirations for the album. And whether she quotes the melody from Doris Payne's 'Just One Look' and pairs it with lyrics about orca whales on 'Hotel Song,' or begins the lovely, confessional closing track, 'Summer in the City,' with the line 'summer in the city means cleavage,' Spektor uses them in unexpected ways. She also places some truly surreal, heady tracks toward Begin to Hope's end: 'Lady' is a torchy number arranged for piano, saxophone, and typewriter, while '20 Years of Snow' is buoyed along by impressionistic keyboards that twinkle and tumble like a just-shaken snow globe. 'Apres Moi,' one of the album's most impressive tracks, showcases her classical piano training, her Russian heritage, and those biblical influences to ominous, paranoid effect. Leaving the more unique, quintessentially Regina Spektor-esque tracks at the end of Begin to Hope isn't so much a bait-and-switch as is a clever way to lure in and loosen the inhibitions of new fans. The album feels like getting to really know someone: at first, it's polite and a little restrained, but then its real personality, with all of its charming idiosyncrasies, finally reveals itself.

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Begin to Hope
Studio album by
Released	June 13, 2006
Recorded	Summer 2005 at SeeSquaredStudio and New York Noise Studios, NYC
Genre
Length	47:15
Label	Sire9362-44112-2
Producer	David Kahne, Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor chronology
Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories (2006) Begin to Hope (2006) Live in California 2006 EP (2007)
Singles from Begin to Hope
'On the Radio' Released: May 30, 2006 'Fidelity' Released: September 25, 2006 'Better' Released: July, 2007 'Summer in the City' Released: December, 2007

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	80/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The A.V. Club	A−[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[4]
The Guardian	[5]
Mojo	[6]
NME	8/10[7]
Pitchfork	7.5/10[8]
Rolling Stone	[9]
Spin	[10]
Uncut	[11]

Begin to Hope is the fourth album by Soviet-bornAmericansinger-songwriterRegina Spektor.^[12] It was released June 13, 2006. The album debuted at number 70 on the Billboard 200, but due to the popularity of the single 'Fidelity', it peaked at number 20^[13] and was labeled a 'pace setter' by Billboard. Rolling Stone named it the 21st-best album of 2006.^[14] The album was certified Gold by the RIAA for shipments to U.S. retailers of 500,000 units.^[15]

The album was nominated for the 2006 Shortlist Music Prize.^[16]

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Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Regina Spektor.

1. 'Fidelity' – 3:47
2. 'Better' – 3:22
3. 'Samson' – 3:10
4. 'On the Radio' – 3:22
5. 'Field Below' – 5:18
6. 'Hotel Song' – 3:29
7. 'Après Moi' – 5:08
8. '20 Years of Snow' – 3:31
9. 'That Time' – 2:39
10. 'Edit' – 4:53
11. 'Lady' – 4:45
12. 'Summer in the City' – 3:50

Deluxe Edition bonus disc

1. 'Another Town' – 4:07
2. 'Uh-Merica' – 3:16
3. 'Baobabs' – 2:02
4. 'Düsseldorf' – 3:09
5. 'Music Box' – 2:11

iTunes Store/Amazon MP3 bonus tracks

18. 'Hero' – 3:44
19. 'Bartender' – 3:12

Vinyl edition disc 2, side A

1. 'Another Town' – 4:10
2. 'Uh-Merica' – 3:19
3. 'Baobabs' – 2:04
4. 'Düsseldorf' – 3:12
5. 'Music Box' – 2:07

Vinyl edition disc 2, side B

1. 'Better' (Piano and Voice) – 3:09
2. 'Better' (Radio Recut) – 3:12
3. 'Hero' – 3:45
4. 'Bartender' – 3:12

Vinyl 10th Anniversary edition disc 2, side B Bonus Track

1. 'Baby Jesus' – 2:43

Personnel[edit]

Regina Spektor Us

• Regina Spektor – piano, vocals, guitar, percussion
• Nick Valensi – guitar on 'Better'
• David Kahne – bass on 'Better'
• Zhao Gang – erhu on 'Field Below'
• Ralph U. Williams – saxophone on 'Lady'
• Shawn Pelton – drums on 'Fidelity', 'Better', 'On the Radio', 'Hotel Song', 'Après Moi' & 'That Time'
• Rachel Beth Egenhoefer – album design
• David Kahne - mainstream pop producer ^[17]

Charts[edit]

Peak positions[edit]

Year	Chart	Peak Position[18]
2007	Australian ARIA Albums Chart	29
2006	Austria Albums Chart	72
2007	Ireland Albums Chart	18
2007	New Zealand RIANZ Albums Chart	10
2007	Swedish Albums Chart	18
2006	U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers	1
2007	U.S. Billboard 200	20
2007	U.K. Albums Chart	53

Certifications[edit]

Region	Certification	Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[19]	Gold	35,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[20]	Gold	7,500^
United Kingdom (BPI)[21]	Gold	100,000^
United States (RIAA)[23]	Gold	600,000[22]
Worldwide	N/A	1,000,000 [24]
*sales figures based on certification alone ^shipments figures based on certification alone

Single success[edit]

In 2006, Regina Spektor's first single, 'Fidelity', premiered on VH1. Soon after, VH1 included her among 'You Oughta Know: Artists on the Rise'.^[25]

Spektor performed 'Fidelity' on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in July 2006 and on ABC's Good Morning America in April 2007.^[26] She also performed 'On The Radio' on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in November 2006. She performed the song again on Late Show with David Letterman in April 2007, and on the Australian Rove McManus show in 2007.

'Better' was released to US radio in late July 2007.

Even though it hasn't been released as a single, 'Hotel Song' has reached #11 in the Irish music download charts and #16 in the Irish Top 50 Singles Chart as of May 2007.

'Samson' is a new recording of a song originally released on 2002's Songs. Gwen Stefani used the song for her Season 9 battle between Korin Bukowski and Chase Kerby on The Voice.

'Après Moi' was covered by Peter Gabriel on his recent album Scratch My Back.

In popular culture[edit]

• The song, 'Better' appeared in the fourth season of the CBS TV show, How I Met Your Mother, in an episode titled 'Happily Ever After.' A piano version of the song appeared prominently throughout the series finale of The Good Wife in 2016.
• 'Hotel Song' is featured in mobile phone company Vodafone's TV commercial in Ireland, contributing to the song's popularity in the country. The song was also featured in the 2011 Jennifer Westfeldt film Friends with Kids.
• 'Music Box' is featured on a JCPenney commercial.
• 'Samson' was featured on CSI: NY in the second-season episode 'All Access'.
• 'Field Below' was on an episode of Criminal Minds.
• 'That Time' was featured in the 2008 Martin McDonagh film In Bruges starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.
• 'Hero' was featured in the film (500) Days of Summer, along with 'Us' from Spektor's previous album, Soviet Kitsch.

Sales[edit]

• In New Zealand, the album was certified Gold for sales of more than 7,500.
• In Australia, the album was certified Gold for sales of more than 35,000.
• In the United States, the album was certified Gold for shipments of over 500,000 copies.^[27] Its sales have since surpassed 600,000 according to Nielsen/Soundscan.

References[edit]

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2. ^Phares, Heather. 'Begin to Hope – Regina Spektor'. AllMusic. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
3. ^Phipps, Keith (June 13, 2006). 'Regina Spektor: Begin To Hope'. The A.V. Club. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
4. ^Juarez, Vanessa (June 9, 2006). 'Begin to Hope'. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
5. ^Sullivan, Caroline (June 7, 2006). 'Regina Spektor, Begin to Hope'. The Guardian. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
6. ^'Regina Spektor: Begin to Hope'. Mojo (153): 88. August 2006.
7. ^'Regina Spektor: Begin to Hope'. NME: 43. July 8, 2006.
8. ^Deusner, Stephen M. (June 12, 2006). 'Regina Spektor: Begin to Hope'. Pitchfork. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
9. ^Eliscu, Jenny (June 12, 2006). 'Regina Spektor: Begin To Hope'. Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on April 13, 2009. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
10. ^Hermes, Will (July 2006). 'Regina Spektor: Begin to Hope'. Spin. 22 (7): 88. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
11. ^'Regina Spektor: Begin to Hope'. Uncut (111): 111. August 2006.
12. ^Block, Melissa (2006-06-28). 'Stories in Song: Regina Spektor's 'Begin to Hope''. NPR. Retrieved 2009-10-10.
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14. ^Dec 11, 2006 8:53 AM (2006-12-11). 'The Top 50 Albums of 2006'. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2009-10-10.
15. ^'RIAA Certifications for Regina Spektor'. Billboard. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2007-11-20.
16. ^'Cat Power Wins 2007 Shortlist Music Prize'. Billboard.com. Retrieved 2009-10-10.
17. ^Neal, Chris. 'Regina Spektor [Begin To Hope].' Performing Songwriter 13.94 (2006): 32. Academic Search Complete. Web. 26 Sept. 2016.
18. ^'Music Charts – αCharts'. Acharts.us. Retrieved 2009-10-10.
19. ^'ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2012 Albums'. Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
20. ^'New Zealand album certifications – Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope'. Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
21. ^'British album certifications – Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope'. British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 25 August 2012.Select albums in the Format field.Select Gold in the Certification field.Type Begin to Hope in the 'Search BPI Awards' field and then press Enter.
22. ^Leebove, Laura (6 June 2009). 'Bronx Tale'. Billboard. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
23. ^'American album certifications – Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope'. Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 25 August 2012.If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH.
24. ^Savage, Mark (21 September 2016). 'Regina Spektor: White lies and sad songs'. BBC. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
25. ^'New Music Artists Info on You Oughta Know, Rising New Artists, See Photos & Watch Videos Online'. VH1.com. Retrieved 2009-10-10.
26. ^'The Virginian-Pilot Archives'. Nl.newsbank.com. 2007-04-05. Retrieved 2009-10-10.
27. ^'Gold & Platinum – October 10, 2009'. RIAA. Archived from the original on 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2009-10-10.