- Record Label: ImaVeePee Records
- Release Date: Sep 18, 2012
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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 18, 2012Sadly, the album at large is plagued by many of the things which have seeped into Folds' sound over the last ten years: the seriousness, the restraint, and the descent into middle age.
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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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MagnetDec 4, 2012We still find this trio a little yawn-worthy. [No. 93, p.55]
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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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Under The RadarNov 30, 2012Way too easygoing and disappointingly light on rockers. [Oct/Nov 2012, p.128]
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Q MagazineOct 23, 2012In the end, it's all a bit too sensible. [Nov 2012, p.95]
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