A good week for music (a bit off-topic)

[[AK]The Beast]

Fans of Ben Folds Five know that the group broke up some time back. However, Ben Folds has a new solo album (Rockin' the Suburbs) due to hit stores in September. Thanks to the magic of the No MP3s Here forum over at Something Awful, I now have that album.

And....Cake's new album, Comfort Eagle hit the stores today. It's very short, almost disappointingly so--just under 37 minutes long. I'll be setting up AK's unofficial FTP server in the next day or so. If anyone would like, I can put those albums up there for a few days so you can check them out.

Edited to say, even if you have no other interest in the Ben Folds album, be sure to check out track #5, Fred Jones Pt. 2. That song exemplifies everything I love about Ben's songwriting...it evokes extraordinary emotion from an ordinary situation. Right now, I'd say it qualifies as my favorite BF song, and is on my all-time top 5 list.