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Track Listing
1. Love Me Like the World Is Ending
2. American Television
3. Birds and Bees - (with Mandy Moore)
4. Is This How Love's Supposed to Feel?
5. Blush
6. Numb
7. What Would Jay-Z Do?
8. Sex Without Love
9. Home
10. So Hungry
11. Just Say Yes
12. Ripe
| Details | | Producer: | John Alagia | | Distributor: | RED Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Additional personnel: Taylor Locke, Robert Schwartzman, Ned Bower, Mandy Moore, Rachael Yamagata, Benji Madden, Sara Watkins , Charlotte Martin.
First unfairly pegged as a teenage alternative rock novelty due to his fanboy ode to the Lemonheads' Evan Dando, "I Wish I Was Him," and then better known for his long public romance with a certain young Hollywood actress, Ben Lee has quietly matured into one of the best pure-pop songwriters of his generation. RIPE--a fine follow-up to his mainstream breakthrough, AWAKE IS THE NEW ASLEEP--is perfectly named: this is the album on which Lee's generous melodic gifts and trademark sardonic humor reach their full maturity. Highlights include the sweetly goofy "American Television" and the positively joyous "Birds and Bees," a duet with Mandy Moore that's as infectious as Elton John and Kiki Dee's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart."
Industry Reviews
RIPE is mighty likable....RIPE seems like an attempt to meet the mainstream head-on.
4 stars out of 5 -- There's whimsy and craft aplenty....Lee is an enflamed romantic at war with cynicism, and his mystical belief in the power of love pervades the material...
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