Ben
Folds Five put on an amazing live performance of their unique brand of piano
alt rock last night at The Pearl at Palms. This was the first time the band has
played a full live show in Las Vegas since 1999.
Ben Folds
Five are back with a new album more than a decade after the trio first said
farewell. The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind, featuring Ben Folds (piano),
Darren Jessee (drums) and Robert Sledge (bass), makes it plain that the years
apart have only served to amplify the band’s already estimable gifts. Songs
like the ebullient first single, “Do It Anyway,” or drummer Jessee’s elegiac
“Sky High” illustrate an increased subtlety as well as a soulfulness born of a
truly inimitable group dynamic.
Photos credit Edison Graff.
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