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SlowCity 5 for 2015: Ben Folds

Will McGuirk January 5, 2016

Ben Folds - So There

I'm not a fan of the Ben Folds but on this chamber-rock release So There, he teams up with yMusic and the Nashville Orchestra and sweeps into Owen Pallett territory taking no prisoners with a flourish and a fan I now am, yes man. Its an elevation of Euro-styles over Yankee doodle noodling that in its peppier moments such as the titular track and some clunky plunkers, "F10-D-A", "I'm Not The Man", "Long Way To Go", sounds like the New Pornographers if nothing newer. The last three tracks comprise an extended concerto movement for piano and orchestra. Together they are sublime, cinematographic, epic, grandiose and hugely entertaining.

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