Laut Pitchfork wird das neue Album von Ben Folds im April veröffentlicht:
Having just stunned the music world by producing a William Shatner record that one can listen to twice without wanting to chew one’s own ears off, Ben Folds is getting ready to release Songs For Silverman, his second full album since the dissolution of Ben Folds Five, on April 26. The record will be almost entirely different from the three Internet-released EPs that have acted as teasers for it, with only one song making a reappearance– „Give Judy My Notice“, re-recorded for Silverman. Folds went into detail in an interview with Rolling Stone about one song: „Late“, written in memory of Elliott Smith. „I was playing all the same shitholes he was,“ Folds said. „The lyrics of the song are about people who are sharing your experience too– ‚Oh, Elliott Smith did this club last night, and he sat in that same room and read all the shit about dicks and asses on the wall.‘ Poets like to talk about how they look up and see the same stars, and I think rock musicians all look up and see the same dicks on the walls. I played [basketball] with him and Beck one time, and Elliott was just fucking throwing elbows like there was no tomorrow.“ Wait, Ben, can you go back to the thing about the wall-mounted penises? We’re not totally clear on that part.
Most of the record– nine songs– were initially recorded early last year, but for whatever reason, Folds scrapped the original tapes and recorded all of the final version of Silverman in Nashville during a single six-week Nashville stay last fall. The tracklist:
01 Bastard
02 You To Thank
03 Jesusland
04 Landed
05 Gracie
06 Trusted
07 Give Judy My Notice
08 Late
09 Sentimental Guy
10 Time
11 Prison FoodAnd just to make sure expectations for the album are nice and low, Folds brought Weird Al Yankovic in to sing backing vocals on „Time“.
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