Today I'd like to feature three awesome new songs from Ben Folds' new collaboration album with British author Nick Hornsby. The duo are releasing an album called "The Foldsby: Levi Johnston's Blues." Tentative release date is sometime in Spring 2010, so hopefully this gem will be here soon. Hornsby wrote the lyrics, while Ben provided the music.
The first song is a cool, subdued little number title (appropriately enough) "Levi Johnston's Blues." It features some nifty understated piano riffs, a big drum sound, and perfectly biting lyrics (with a chorus straight off Johnston's myspace page- also, who the hell still uses myspace?). Check out the demo version on youtube.
The second song floating around out there is a track with an awesome chorus called either "Picture Window" or "Hope is a Bastard." At concerts, Folds had been announcing it as "Hope is a Bastard," but a recent twitpic from Ben of the album's track list has it listed as "Picture Window." As I said before, the chorus is just awesome- "You know what hope is/Hope is a bastard/Hope is a liar/a cheat and a tease." Awesome. Musically, it really reminds me of "Effington," from Way to Normal. Here it is
The last song is called "Belinda," but I haven't been able to find a good demo of it, just some decent live versions. I think lyrically, it strikes a good balance of melancholy and comedy while still being serious. It recalls songs like "Jane," and "Kylie from Connecticut," musically. I actually do like this song a whole lot. So here's that one.
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