Ben Folds What Matters Most 2025-08-08 along with the steady balance

along with the steady balance of Vince Sooicide's snarling rhythm guitar

harmonica and signature fingerstyle guitar

From the NZ-meets-Athens GA first single "The Lost Song" through the 12-string driven "Waiting For The Summer" to the Paisley Underground-tinged closer "Falling Down

with the birth of his musical alter-ego

and a familial curse which transforms her

Ben Folds What Matters Most 2025-08-08 along with the steady balanceMore than anything, I wanted to make an album that was generous, that was useful, says Ben Folds. I want you to finish this record with something you didnt have when you started. Indeed, Folds masterful new collection, What Matters Most, isnt 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