Ben Folds

Ben Folds continues to produce highly-arranged music that sounds like pure Product on the surface, but a closer look reveals the workings of a songwriter who takes his craft very seriously. Here he incorporates more Brian Wilson than Elton John, although in the end there's more of Folds himself than anyone else.

If you wrote me off, I'd understand it, Ben Folds sings on "Landed," the melancholy first
single from his second solo album. The piano-plunking singer-songwriter is addressing a
former lover, but he could just as easily be singing to the fickle listeners who consigned
him to some future Dork Rock of the '90s compilation after his band broke up and the hits
stopped coming. But with the heartfelt, elaborately crafted Songs for Silverman,... More >