6/11/2023 0 Comments Everyone piano sheet music cnPost-a cappella self-tribute album, post-"The Sing-Off" judging gig, post-diminishing-returns solo career, this reunion feels obligatory and uninspired- an inevitable development that yields few memorable moments.Īdmittedly, the prospect of a new Ben Folds Five album is only slightly more appealing than the prospect of actually revisiting those first three albums, which are about as mired in the 1990s as the cover of The Sound of the Life of the Mind. But what was fresh in 1997 sounds much less so in 2012. Fifteen years ago, indie pop that used showtunes to take down the pretentions of indie pop sounded acceptably smartass. For better or for worse, "Erase Me" has all the hallmarks of pre- Reinhold Messner BFF: the spry instrumental interplay that marks their best material but was sorely missed when the piano man went solo the too-clever lyrics that mistake recrimination for emotion and a sturm-und-drang that winks at metal but, you know, it's on piano so it's funny. He's on piano, of course, but that's the perfectly named Robert Sledge back on fuzz bass and Darren Jessee, a welcome presence on drums. Ben Folds Five's first album in 13 years opens with a piano noodling over a sludgy bass guitar groove, as if to dispel any notion that The Sound of the Life of the Mind might just be Folds without the Five.
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