- Record Label: ImaVeePee Records
- Release Date: Sep 18, 2012
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UncutSep 28, 2012Folds stays true to his career-long mission to whisk up a melting pot of musical styles. [Nov 2012, p.73]
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Sep 24, 2012This is a solid, if unspectacular, comeback and fans will be crossing their fingers that The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind is a new beginning, rather than a one-off cash-in.
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Sep 20, 2012The freewheeling Ben Folds Five still do the best imitation of themselves.
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Sep 18, 2012Very little here could be accused of being twee; Folds sounds invigorated to have a rock band behind him again, making him play harder, sing harder, be harder.
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Sep 18, 2012Only "Do It Anyway" and the title track sound at all like amenable pandering. All the rest feels totally organic.
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Sep 18, 2012Mind sounds exactly what a mature Ben Folds Five record should sound like: hard-won wisdom and withering observations with an unabashedly sentimental core.
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Sep 18, 2012Sarcastic, sweet, subversive, geeky, and awkward are hard vibes to juggle, but Folds, Sledge, and Jessee manage more times than not to keep all of the pins in the air, which after more than a decade apart, is pretty remarkable.
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Sep 18, 2012Unfortunately, The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind loses a little steam after that outstanding opening trifecta, either when Folds leans too heavily on his flashy lyricism or downplays his band's instrumental strengths.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 21
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Mixed: 3 out of 21
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Negative: 2 out of 21
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