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- Record Label: ImaVeePee Records
- Release Date: Sep 18, 2012
- Summary: The fourth studio album for the indie rock band is its first release of new music in 13 years.
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- Record Label: ImaVeePee Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Top Track
Away When You Were Here | |
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Dad I know you were sad when you died And I was young it’s the way I kept you in my mind The mess that was left and my mother cried And when she... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 16
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Mixed: 7 out of 16
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Negative: 1 out of 16
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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, 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 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 18, 2012The good news is that one of the most consistently entertaining pop-rock bands of the 1990s is back together. The bad news is that the album they've released to mark their comeback isn't quite a classic.
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Alternative PressSep 18, 2012There's nothing about Robert Sledge and Darren Jessee's performance on Life that will make you realize you're listening to Ben Folds Five. Still, a few songs are gems. [Oct 2012, p.84]
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Sep 21, 2012There's a pall of maturity over The Sound of the Life of the Mind that both unifies and wrecks it. It rejects, if only halfheartedly, the nerdy, masculine piss that once made the band such guilty fun.
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Sep 20, 2012Even as Sledge and Jessee work to add some rough edges to the music, their frontman keeps his distance on Sound of the Life of the Mind, as though he can't quite get outside his own mind. As a result, the album sounds barely able to polarize, like Folds is rockin' the suburbs gently to sleep.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 6
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Mixed: 0 out of 6
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Negative: 1 out of 6
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