What Matters Most is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Ben Folds, his first album since So There in 2015. The album was released on June 2, 2023, by New West Records. The album was announced on February 15, 2023, along with the release of the first single from the album, "Winslow Gardens". What Matters Most is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Ben Folds, his first album since So There in 2015. The album was released on June 2, 2023, by New West Records. The album was announced on February 15, 2023, along with the release of the first single from the album, "Winslow Gardens". false 2023-06-03 01:30:06 What Matters Most 2023 2023-06-02 2023-06-02 40 Alternative Rock Indie Pop Indie Rock Pop Piano Rock 114185 2406053 423ce27d-db48-49dc-9cbb-dfbc87c22b93 51b7f46f-6c0f-46f2-9496-08c9ec2624d4 37f1803f-a6c3-40bb-ba4b-5130b970a7b6 /media/data/media4/Music/Ben Folds/What Matters Most (2023)/folder.jpg Ben Folds AlbumArtist Ben Folds Artist Ben Folds Ben Folds 1 But Wait, There’s More 03:41 2 Clouds With Ellipses 03:00 3 Exhausting Lover 03:35 4 Fragile 03:35 5 Kristine From the 7th Grade 05:22 6 Back to Anonymous 04:20 7 Winslow Gardens 03:26 8 Paddleboat Breakup 04:49 9 What Matters Most 04:10 10 Moments 03:52 Benjamin Scott Folds (born September 12, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. After playing in several small independent bands throughout the late 80s and into the early 90s, Folds came to prominence as the eponymous frontman and pianist of the alternative rock trio Ben Folds Five from 1993 to 2000, and again during their reunion from 2011 to 2013. He has recorded a number of solo albums – the most recent of which, What Matters Most, was released in June 2023. He has also collaborated with musicians such as Regina Spektor, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and yMusic, and undertaken experimental songwriting projects with actor William Shatner and authors such as Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman. Since May 2017, he has been the first artistic advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Folds has frequently performed arrangements of his music with uncommon instrumentation for rock and pop music, including symphony orchestras and a cappella groups. In addition to contributing music to the soundtracks of the animated films Hoodwinked!, and Over the Hedge, Folds has produced several albums, including Amanda Palmer's first solo album Who Killed Amanda Palmer in 2008. Folds was a judge on the NBC a cappella singing contest The Sing-Off from 2009 to 2013. In July 2019, Folds published his first book, a memoir, titled A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons.