New Ben Harper album: Lifeline

[bwell]

So i've listened to it once and it has some good songs but there's something i don't like.

I think there is way too much piano.

there isn't much in the way of funk or blues, and the piano is really really heavy.

maybe it will grow on me.

[bryanaroo]

when does this come out? any album artwork out yet?

[bwell]

looks like this is gonna be the artwork

www.benharper.net/lifeline/

it comes out august 28th i think

[Deleted]

I am kinda on the fence about Bens new album.

I commented the other day while listening to it, that it could have been released in the 60s and fit right in.

I think he has a very Otis Redding feel on the new one.

[trippindaisy]

I liked a few of the songs immediately, the rest I think will take a while to grow on me. Overall I think I like it but just as not as much as some of the older stuff.

[ka mai]

This makes three duds in a row for Ben in my book (not counting There Will Be a Light which is sublime). Oh well, he's still great live.

[mschro]

three in a row? wow.

[danbird]

I really like this new album personally. Heart of Matters is such a great song. I don't think the album is anything earth shattering or anything, but I like it alot better than Both Sides of the Gun.

[snoochio]

I like it pretty well also. In fact, I think you'd be hard pressed to make an album as good if you took the best songs from both discs of Both Sides of the Gun and made one album. But i really think Diamonds on the Inside is his best in recent years.