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Ben Folds Five “probably” reforming for new album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 21 September 2011
Ben Folds has revealed that he recently reunited with his former Ben Folds Five bandmates, drummer Darren Jessee and bassist Robert Sledge, to record three new songs for a retrospective of his whole career to date. The result, he says, is that the band will “probably” now return to the studio to record a new album.
Explaining how the band came to record the new songs for the compilation, ‘The Best Imitation Of Myself’, due out later this year, Folds said that it was as simple as his label, Sony Music, suggesting it. “We tend to do things when we’re asked”, he told Spinner. “It’s really funny. We hadn’t had any offers to do anything. I guess it’s all self-motivation. We didn’t know if we were going to get together or not for anything. I called Robert and Darren up – they were free for a week – so we got the studio for the week”.
He continued: “We did the three things that we could do quickly for the record, and there were all these other ideas that I was bringing in that were really more radical. So I think in December we’ll probably get together [record more] as long as I have enough material when I come back in”.
