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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelNeww, New West Records
UPC0607396654505
eBay Product ID (ePID)16060431993
Product Key Features
FormatCD
Release Year2023
GenreRock
ArtistFolds, Ben
Release TitleWhat Matters Most
Dimensions
Item Height0.15 in
Item Weight0.11 lb
Item Length5.65 in
Item Width4.07 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Number of Tracks10
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 But Wait, There's More 1.2 Clouds with Ellipses 1.3 Exhausting Lover 1.4 Fragile 1.5 Kristine from the 7th Grade 1.6 Back to Anonymous 1.7 Winslow Gardens 1.8 Paddleboat Breakup 1.9 What Matters Most 1.10 Moments (Feat. Tall Heights)
NotesIndeed, Folds' masterful new collection, What Matters Most, isn't so much a statement as it is an offering, an open hand reaching out to all those wounded and bewildered by a world that seems to make less and less sense every day. Recorded in East Nashville with co-producer Joe Pisapia, the album marks Folds' first new studio release in eight years, and it's a bold, timely, cinematic work, one that examines the tragic and the absurd in equal measure as it reckons with hope and despair, gratitude and loss, identity and perspective. The songs are bittersweet here, hilarious at times, but often laced with a quiet sense of longing and dread: a text message goes unanswered; an old classmate descends into the dark depths of internet conspiracies; a relationship unravels in the middle of a lake. And yet, taken as a whole, the result is an undeniably joyful record that refuses to succumb to the weight of the world around it, an ecstatic reminder of all the beauty and promise hiding in plain sight for anyone willing (and present enough) to recognize their moments as they arrive.