Regina Spektor

From top left, clockwise: The Suffers, GIVĒON, Saya Gray, Petrol Girls, Regina Spektor,. Courtesy of the artists hide caption

Top row (left to right): Regina Spektor, Tomberlin, Stella Donnelly; Bottom row: Shane Cooper & MABUTA Courtesy of the artists hide caption

Clockwise from upper left: Superorganism, Kevin Morby, Sharon Van Etten, Regina Spektor Courtesy of the artists hide caption

Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor at Lollapalooza in 2007, months before her nine-song performance for NPR's Mountain Stage. Jeff Gentner/Getty Images hide caption

Jakob Dylan (left) and Tom Petty in a still from Echo in the Canyon. Greenwich Entertainment hide caption

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"It becomes a gift ... to get to see things from a different perspective," Regina Spektor says. Her new album is called Remember Us To Life. Shervin Lainez/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Clockwise from upper left: Clipping, Regina Spektor, Angelica Garcia Courtesy of the artists hide caption

Clockwise from upper left: Cover art for Björk's Vespertine, Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Moby's Play, Kanye West's Late Registration, Sleigh Bells' Treats and Regina Spektor's Begin To Hope Courtesy of the artists hide caption

"To me, the voice is an instrument, just like any other instrument," Regina Spektor says. Shervin Lainez hide caption

Clockwise from upper left: Kishi Bashi, Simone White, Bobby Womack, Aleksa Palladino of Exitmusic, Sinead O'Connor. Courtesy of the artists hide caption

The songs on What We Saw From the Cheap Seats don't come just from the past year but from a span of "10 years or more," Regina Spektor says. Shervin Lainez hide caption

Regina Spektor (upper left), Kishi Bashi (right) and Mind Spiders (bottom). Courtesy of the artists hide caption