Regina Spektor has put out the welcome mat with her new album “Home, before and after,” bringing listeners back into her beautifully constructed web of narrative songs that are whimsically poetic while also emotionally haunting. It’s her first album in six years, after a pause that welcomed her second child with musician husband Jack Dishel, saw her debut on Broadway, and of course contended with the pandemic shutdowns.
While some may remember Spektor from her piano pop panache on early tracks like “Fidelity” and “Samson,” or even for writing the barreling theme for the Netflix hit “Orange is the New Black,” her latest material will go down as some of her best.
