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Ben Folds Five Confirm New Album Details

The full-length is due in September.

Ben Folds Five Confirm New Album Details

Ben Folds Five will release their first album in 13 years this autumn, with ‘The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind’ due on 17th September.

The ten-song release was funded through PledgeMusic, with a portion of the proceeds going to charity Music Education and Music Therapy.

The tracklisting is as follows:


01. Erase Me

02. Michael Praytor, Five Years Later

03. Sky High

04. The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind

05. On Being Frank

06. Draw A Crowd

07. Do It Anyway

08. Hold That Thought

09. Away When You Were Here

10. Thank You For Breaking My Heart

The band will be playing a string of UK shows to celebrate the release, catch them at:

NOVEMBER
23 O2 Academy Bournemouth
24 Nottingham Rock City
26 Dublin Vicar Street
29 O2 Apollo Manchester
30 O2 Academy Glasgow

DECEMBER
01 O2 Academy Leeds
03 O2 Academy Birmingham
04 O2 Academy Brixton
05 O2 Academy Brixton

The last release to come from the trio was all the way back in 1999, with ‘The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner’.

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