Home, before and after is Regina Spektor's eighth studio album and her most quintessentially “New York” record in years.
Recorded in upstate New York, produced by John Congleton with Spektor, Home, before and after is Spektor at her most inspired, most notably on "Becoming All Alone," a surrealist ballad that swells with arrangements and comes alive in your head.
Regina Spektor is synonymous with New York City. The Russian-Jewish-American singer, songwriter and pianist got her own sign on the Bronx Walk of Fame, as well as Regina Spektor Day (June 11, 2019), proclaimed by Mayor Bill DeBlasio.
During the summer of 2019, Spektor completed a successful five-night Broadway residency at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, marking her debut on the Great White Way. The Daily Beast called the run “both whimsical and thunderous,” with Gothamist saying Spektor “delights on Broadway with a fun, zany show.” Spektor’s most recent album, 2016’s Remember Us To Life, has been the subject of extensive critical praise from the likes of NPR, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, People, and many more.
The Grammy Award nominee first saw commercial success with the RIAA Gold-certified LP Begin To Hope, which includes singles “On The Radio,” “Better,” “Samson,” as well as “Fidelity” which climbed the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Spektor’s fifth album, Far (2009), and sixth album, What We Saw From The Cheap Seats (2012), both debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Spektor has performed at the White House as well as on Broadway, Saturday Night Live, and contributed to many projects spanning film, television, and music, including The Hamilton Mixtape.
Regina is a Soviet-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. She was born in the Soviet Union where she began classical training on the piano at the age of six. When she was nine years old, her family immigrated to the United States where she continued her classical training into her teenage years; she began to write original songs shortly thereafter. After self-releasing her first three records and gaining popularity in New York City's independent music scenes, particularly the anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village, Spektor signed with Sire Records in 2004 where she began achieving greater mainstream notoriety.