Here are a few of this past week’s reviews of So There:
- Straight-up chamber pop, by Samantha Vincenty in PopCrush
- A dramatic turn on par with Bob Dylan’s electric set at Newport, from Lee Zimmerman of Glide Magazine
- Deceptively happy ruminations, by Bill Lamb in the Wisconsin Gazette
- Never the same album twice, by Annie Zaleski in A.V. Club
- I want to piss in your yard with this record, in which Ben drinks Scotch, plays knives like they’re drumsticks and gets all potty-mouthed with Danielle Bacher of Billboard Magazine
- Pleasant, affable personality (could this be the same Ben? Never the same interview twice, I suppose) of whom the orchestra draws out the purest essence, by Adam Kivel writing in Consequence of Sound
- Definitely sounds like a Ben Folds record but with strings and horns that aren’t merely part of the background, says Michael Quick writing in the University of New Haven Charger Bulletin
- Kurt Weill meets Randy Newman and Leon Russell is Jon Sobel’s impression, writing in BlogCritics