Ben Folds - What Matters MostIndeed, 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

The result is a intensely personal record that addresses the subject of loss from diverse perspectives

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The album opens with urgency and anger

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a battle piece involving a great many diminutions or 'divisions'

We think this album will capture your heart immediately

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a pyramid of sonic destruction and psychic creation