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Product Identifiers

Record LabelEpic

EAN5099749331228

eBay Product ID (ePID)13052246729

Product Key Features

LanguageEnglish

Era1990s

Run Time2430 Sec

Release Year1999

FormatCD

InstrumentPiano

FeaturesStudio Recording

GenrePop, Alternative, Rock

TypeAlbum

ArtistBen Folds Five

Release TitleUnauthorized Biography of

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

DistributionSony Music/Sony Dadc

Number of Tracks11

Additional InformationPiano-Heavy Indie Trio Take a Lush (And Often Prog Rock) Turn on Its 1999 Swan Song.

ReviewsRanked #9 in Mojo Magazine's "Best of 1999.", 3 1/2 Stars (out of 5) - "...a four-piece string section adorns many of these tracks, lending them a lush, cinematic feel....filled with...richly melodic ballads that take the form of romantic declarations that wind up expressing far more ambivalent emotions...", "...faithful and pateient adherents to Folds' slacker gospel will...accept REINHOLD MESSNER as required reading.", "...exhilarating, amusingly inappropriate and just plain silly by turns....fresh textures have been employed to considerable effect and there's an attention to dynamic detail and palpable compositional ambition that marks the album as a significant development...", 3 1/2 stars (out of 5) - "...ambitious, irritating, confounding, catchy and strangely compelling....'Radiohead for geeks'....Folds goes for the gusto here...", "...Folds writes chirpy pop melodies much sparer than those of old-school art-rock bands, and the Five are less taken with electronic gizmos..." - Rating: B, (4 out of 5) - Excellent - "...vaguely conceptual,less frantic than previous work, more lush in both scope and arrangement. Influences seem more diverse and somehow older....Exciting stuff. And they're memorable, individual and kinda odball fun.", 7 out of 10 - "...It has the ambitious scope and fragile bravado of a record hewn out of tremendous passion....reeling from plinkety cabaret to '70s AOR to breathless Beach Boys melodics with panoramic ease...", 4 stars (out of 5) - "...loads of great piano flourishes....this soundtracks the swagger of conquering a whole heap of very, very beautiful humpback bridges...", 8 (out of 10) - "...Folds and Co. embrace old-fashioned sunny-but-sad pop art echoing prime Dionne Warwick, 10cc, and Fold's beloved Captain Fantastic. It can be impressive..."

Number of Audio ChannelsStereo