After a three-year wait, the third album from 29-year-old Russian-born New York artist Regina Spektor, “Far,” speaks out to everyone in a unique way.Spektor is one of the few artists who can speak to almost everyone with her lyrics and mean something completely different to each of them.

Her songs range from deep and powerful to playful and upbeat, and there is no mistaking her one-of-a-kind voice.

Songs like “Laughing With” and “Man of a Thousand Faces” follow a very melodic tone, a tone that has you hanging on every word. Other songs like “Folding Chair” and “Dance Anthem of the 80’s” are almost reminiscent of Kimya Dawson’s work post The Moldy Peaches.

Spektor plays around with tone on this album more than anything else. From very happy to gloomy, she really portrays a wide range of emotions.

It’s hard to find a track on this album that you can pass up, but if I’d have to choose, it would be “Machine”. For some reason, the song doesn’t seem to fit in with the album as well as all the other songs do. It has an industrial sound to it that does the name justice, but it doesn’t seem to blend well with Spektor’s trademark voice.

All I can suggest is to listen to this album as a whole and not just to individual songs; it’s arranged very well.

I hope that it doesn’t take three more years for another Regina Spektor album to come out, but until then, we have good music to hang on to.