Ben will be the guest on Tom Robinson’s Now Playing show on BBC Radio 6 Music Sunday, September 23, a popular British radio programme in which guest artists help choose the songs to be played during the two-hour 6-8pm block. (That translates to 1pm in the US Eastern time zone.) As Ben sits in, he’ll be watching the hashtag #BenFolds56Music on Twitter for fan suggestions. No worries – if you’re not in the UK you can listen online.
Announcements
Help Ben pick the tunes on BBC’s “Now Playing”
Track three: “Sky High” (and subsequent previews)
Editor’s note: As each individual track from The Sound of the Life of the Mind is released, we’ll update this post with the latest links instead of creating a new post for each song.
The third track, Sky High, is out and available for preview at AOL Spinner. The mellow ballad written by Darren Jessee is nicely mixed and produced with the piano dominant in the foreground. Robert’s raucuos bass lines take a gentler turn in this apologetic story, the latest to become available from The Sound of the Life of the Mind, due out September 18.
Update: The title track, The Sound of the Life of the Mind,  is available from Fuse. (10 September)
Update:Â On Being Frank is available from Idolator. It’s not about me; it’s another Frank he’s singing about. (11 September)
Update: Â Draw a Crowd is now available via Rolling Stone. (12 September)
Update: Hold That Thought is now available via Paste Magazine. (13 September)
Update:Â Away When You Were Here is now available via Yahoo Music. (14 September)
Update: Thank You For Breaking My Heart is now available via MSN Music. (17 September)
Second preview track out
The second preview track from The Sound of the Life of the Mind is out, hosted at Conan O’Brien’s TeamCoCo.com. It’s Michael Praytor, Five Years Later and showcases the familiar harmonies of the trio.
“Erase Me” available for download
The track Erase Me, from the soon-to-be-released reunion album The Sound of the Life of the Mind, is out and available for download from Spin Magazine. The five-minute track picks up musically where the guys left off thirteen years ago, and chronicles the familiar story of love lost. The full album goes on sale September 18.
New Twitter handle: @MagicalArmchair
We’ve changed our Twitter handle to @MagicalArmchair. If you already follow us, your feeds will still follow us automatically. Be sure to tell your friends to follow as well!
