{"id":1588,"date":"2011-03-04T16:23:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T23:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2011-03-04T16:23:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T23:23:30","slug":"ben-foldsnick-hornby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/ben-foldsnick-hornby\/","title":{"rendered":"BEN FOLDS\/NICK HORNBY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BEN-FOLDS-NICK-HORNBY-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1589\" title=\"BEN-FOLDS-NICK-HORNBY-M-Review-SeptOct2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BEN-FOLDS-NICK-HORNBY-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BEN-FOLDS-NICK-HORNBY-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BEN-FOLDS-NICK-HORNBY-M-Review-SeptOct2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>B<\/strong><strong>EN FOLDS\/NICK HORNBY <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em> Lonely Avenue<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Nonesuch]<\/p>\n<p>Fittingly, <em>Lonely Avenue<\/em>, a joint project from singer-songwriter Ben Folds and British novelist Nick Hornby, is bookended by modern-day artist\u2019s laments. In the first, \u201cA Working Day,\u201d a writer battles expectations and internet criticism; in the last, \u201cBelinda,\u201d a musician relives the pain of a lost love affair again and again via his only hit. Here and elsewhere, Hornby\u2019s lyrics paint darkly comic character sketches, but his acerbic wit is tempered by Folds\u2019 playful melodies, which often draw on late-\u201970s rock. And when the subject matter turns tragic, as on \u201cPicture Window,\u201d Folds\u2019 cinematic score and Paul Buckmaster\u2019s weeping strings make an already evocative poem transcendent. The individual work of Folds and Hornby has always been remarkably self-assured, but this kind of close collaboration often requires a more flexible vision. Both the spirit and the content of <em>Lonely Avenue<\/em> offer a fascinating portrait of artists caught in the act of being vulnerable. \u2013Katie Dodd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEN FOLDS\/NICK HORNBY Lonely Avenue [Nonesuch] Fittingly, Lonely Avenue, a joint project from singer-songwriter Ben Folds and British novelist Nick Hornby, is bookended by modern-day artist\u2019s laments. In the first, \u201cA Working Day,\u201d a writer battles expectations and internet criticism; in the last, \u201cBelinda,\u201d a musician relives the pain of a lost love affair again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1089,1090],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}