What Matters Most
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Album • Jun 02 / 2023 • 10 songs, 39m 54s • 84%
Piano Rock
Pop Rock
Noteable
After a hit Ben Folds Five reunion album in 2012 and a companion live LP the next year, Ben Folds seemed to seek routes away from, or merely adjacent to, his trademark piano pop/rock.
8.0
/ 10
It’s been eight long years since Ben Folds’ last studio album, So There, his collaboration with the string ensemble yMusic.
Ben Folds’s ‘What Matters Most’ amounts to a relatively familiar reflection on aging and the passage of time. Read our review.
6
/ 10
Ben Folds' What Matters Most is a mixed bag. He may not be going for the all-out piano rock much this time, but his melodies are as good as ever.