Soviet Kitsch

Soviet Kitsch
Studio album by Regina Spektor
Released	August 17, 2004
Genre	Anti-folk, Indie rock
Length	39:00
Label	Sire Records (US) / Shoplifter Records (UK) / WEA (UK)
Producer	Gordon Raphael, Alan Bezozi, Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor chronology
Songs (2002) Soviet Kitsch (2004) Live at Bull Moose (2005)

Professional ratings
Review scores
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 third album by Regina Spektor. The title is drawn from Milan Kundera's expression for the vacuous aesthetics of 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.

Track listing

All songs written by Regina Spektor.

1. "Ode to Divorce" – 3:42
2. "Poor Little Rich Boy" – 2:27
3. "Carbon Monoxide" – 4:59
4. "The Flowers" – 3:54
5. "Us" – 4:52
6. "Sailor Song" – 3:15
7. "* * *" – 0:44
8. "Your Honor" – 2:10
9. "Ghost of Corporate Future" – 3:21
10. "Chemo Limo" – 6:04
11. "Somedays" – 3:21

Track 7 is a brief spoken word piece in which Spektor and her brother, Barry (Bear) Spektor, discuss the following song ("Your Honor"). The band backing Spektor on "Your Honor" is Kill Kenada.

Releases

Year	Label	Format	Catalog no.	Country
2004	Sire	CD	48833	US
2004	Sire	CD/DVD	48890	US
2004	Shoplifter	CD	005	UK
2005	Sire	LP	48953	US
2007	WEA	CD	9362493522	UK