Army

by Ben Folds Five

Army cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 12 April 1999
  • Label: 550
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.83/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Andy Wallace, Caleb Southern, Frank London, Tom Maxwell, Paul Shapiro, Ken Mosher

Album Notes & Community Reviews

From 'The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner', Folds's account of youthful failure in two registers, narrated verse against horn-driven chorus. Its imagined army enlistment frames the album's theme of arrested development.

Genres

Descriptors: existential, melodic, piano, rhythmic, narrative

Tracklist

  1. Army
  2. Birds
  3. Leather Jacket
  4. Air

Credits

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