Regina Spektor’s Album Cover Timeline

Chloe Killin

2004 2006 2007 2009

This album is Regina Spektor’s debut album with a major record label. The title Soviet Kitsch is intended to poke fun at a variant of communist known as Stalinism.

This next album is more toned down from the previous, and has taken a softer approach. This is the look and feel that she maintains for the next few albums and singles.

The cover of this single directly relates to a lyric from the track it features “A pair of dull scissors in the yellow light”. The text is in the same font as was used on the previous album.

The single “Eet” also uses the same font as the 2006 album, establishing this as recurring characteristic of Spektor’s digipaks.The photo is much less manipulated than previous ones and brings in a retro style to match her dress sense and general aesthetic.

2009 2010 2012 2012

The final use of the familiar font is on this album. There is also a return to the simpler colour scheme and use of grey. Both of which makes the audience feel familiar with the image on the digipack quickly and fans of Spektor’s are likely to quickly recognise the style.

This Radiohead cover was released as a single and uses a Russian propaganda poster style possibly as a nod to her first major album and her roots. This is quite striking and her audience is likely to recognise it as her because of her uniqueness in being one of the few famous Russian-American singer/songwriters.

A similar red is used for this single as the previous one, although we have moved from a Russian to a French style keeping with the song which has a small part in French. It has a more elegant style, with the silhouette and the blue flowing writing.

A more quirky style has risen here with bolder colours and text that is just as eye catching, if not more, as the photo which is unusual with singer/songwriter and indie folk albums, so makes her album stand out in comparison to other albums/artists of these genres.