Piano songstress Regina Spektor is set to release her third major-label album, “Far,” early this summer.

The 13-track album, the follow-up to 2006’s “Begin To Hope,” will hit store shelves on June 23 via Sire Records. The first single will be a track called “Laughing With.”

Spektor sought the talents of four different producers for the new album: Jeff Lynne (ELO, The Traveling Wilburys), Mike Elizondo (Dr. Dre, Eminem), David Kahne (Paul McCartney, The Strokes) and Garret “Jacknife” Lee (Weezer, REM). In a recent interview with Pitchfork, the singer/songwriter/pianist was asked if she was worried about creating a cohesive sound with such varied producers.

“I’m pretty much stuck sounding like myself so it’s going to be cohesive, in a way,” she said. “And matching producers with songs was done kind of thoughtlessly – it wasn’t like I was sitting there thinking, ‘Well, this person would make more sense with this song.’ I didn’t do research or anything like that. It’s almost like throwing stuff on the floor and seeing how it lands, you know?”

Spektor plans to launch a worldwide tour in support of “Far,” though dates have yet to be announced.

Since the breakout success of ”Begin To Hope,” Spektor has contributed songs to several projects, including the compilation album “Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur” and the 2008 film “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.”






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