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Ben Folds: Rockin' The Suburbs** (Epic)

Kit Aiken, Uncut, October 2001

FOR ALL the kick-ass live excitement and increasingly refined recorded achievements of his piano-led power trio, it was inevitable that the most musically literate pop songwriter of his generation would have to find a new context at some point. And that point is here.

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