Soviet Kitsch

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Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	72/100
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 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".

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

Deluxe Version bonus track

12. "Scarecrow and Fungus" – 2:29

Standard Vinyl Release

12. "Scarecrow and Fungus" – 2:29
13. "December" - 2:10

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").

Personnel

Regina Spektor: piano, voice, rhodes, drumstick, percussion, producer, songwriter

Alan Bezozi: producer, drums, percussion, heartbeat

Oren Bloedow: guitar

Graham Maby: bass

Gordon Raphael: percussion

Bear Spektor: whispers ("***")

The 4x4 String Quartet: strings ("Us" and "Somedays")

Kill Kenada: backing punk band ("Your Honor")

Eric Biondo: songwriter (one lyric and melody sampled in "Somedays")

Reception

In 2009, the album was included in NME's list of 100 greatest albums of the decade.

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