Soviet Kitsch
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| Studio album by Regina Spektor | ||||
| Released | August 17, 2004 | |||
| Genre | Art pop | |||
| Length | 38:49 | |||
| Label | Sire | |||
| Producer | Gordon Raphael, Alan Bezozi, Regina Spektor | |||
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| Singles from Soviet Kitsch | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 72/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    |
| The A.V. Club | (favorable) |
| Blender | |
| Pitchfork Media | (6.8/10) |
| PopMatters | (7/10) |
| Prefix Magazine | (7/10) |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Stylus | B− |
Soviet Kitsch is the major label debut and third album by American singer/songwriter Regina Spektor. The title is drawn from Milan Kundera's expression for the vacuous aesthetics of Stalinist-style communism, a theme in his book The Unbearable Lightness of Being. One version of the album was released with a bonus DVD, which included a short promotional film titled The Survival Guide to Soviet Kitsch and the music video for the song "Us".
In 2009, the album was included in NME's list of 100 greatest albums of the decade.
All songs written by Regina Spektor.
Track 7 is titled "Whisper" on digital versions of the album. It is a brief spoken word piece in which Spektor and her brother, Barry "Bear" Spektor, discuss the following song ("Your Honor").
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