★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentTweetShare Welcome to the Work that Doesn't Quite Work With messy hair and an overgrown beard, t-shirt and a flowered guitar, Ben Lee looks like a backpacker hosteling through South America. Gone are the teenybopper polos, blazers, and boyish face the world has come to associate with this Australian singer-songwriter, famous for hits like "Catch My Disease" and "Cigarettes Will Kill You." As his exterior changes, so do the themes of his writing...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-05-13
★★★★★
Ben Lee is about to release his ninth studio album Ayahuasca: Welcome To The Work on April 23, his first album since his 2011 release Deeper Into Dream. The title of the album really tells you what to expect from the songs on the album. Ayahuasca is a psychotropic brew used traditionally by Amazonian shamans since the 16th century for healing and divinatory purposes. The tea-like brew contains DMT, a naturally occurring hallucinogen - and controlled illegal drug in most countries...
- www.theaureview.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Despite surviving the music industry meat grinder for almost 20 years, Aussie troubadour Ben Lee is regressing rather than maturing. His last album, 2009's the Rebirth of Venus, was an ill-conceived concept album about femininity. And now Deeper into Dream burns up whatever goodwill adult contemporary staple "Catch My Disease" bought him...
- exclaim.ca
2011-11-17
★★★★★
Ben Lee's new album Deeper Into Dream starts with a spoken-word track that seems to establish just how literally we'll be venturing "into dream" over the next 45 minutes. Various voices, mostly Australian, reveal the content of their dreams, both mundane and fantastical. And on the title track that follows, Lee offers up a kind of mission statement: "Have you ever woken from a dream and convinced yourself you remember it / In the morning...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-11-03
★★★★★
Ben Lee Deeper into Dream (Dew Process/Universal) He may be most famous for a record called Awake is the New Sleep, but Ben Lee is downright fixated on what happens when we're snoozing. His self-produced eighth album plunges into swirling, free-flowing pop while Lee meditates on close-knit themes. It's bookended and punctuated in the middle with various people recounting their own quirky dreams, coalescing in a warm vibe of interconnectivity...
- www.thevine.com.au
2011-10-20
★★★★★
For his eighth album, singer-songwriter Ben Lee, inspired by his work with the late psychotherapist Jan Lloyd, turned to his subconscious for material, and made the record himself (his first outing as a producer) in his Laurel Canyon home studio. If this preamble has listeners heading for the exit on the grounds of "insufferable solo artist narcissism," they'd be reassured to know that Lee's amiability, charm, and solid folk-pop instincts counterbalance the potential solipsism of the set-up...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2011-10-13
★★★★★
Dreams can be pretty crazy things. The late, great comic Mitch Hedberg said he didn't like dreams because, "there I am, laying in my comfortable bed in my hotel room...next thing I know, I have to build a go-kart with my ex-landlord." Dreams have the power to take you to unusual and unexpected places. Some of the best and most memorable are strange and jump around to weird surprises that are always exciting...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2011-10-11
★★★★★
I saw Ben first at a Dashboard Confessional show and I bought the CD just after he ended his set. I was lucky to get one of the last ones. Although Ben sounded awesome live, he projects the same sound on his album, and some of the are even live recordings. With tales about how you can do anything, gamble everything for love, jealousy, how you can ache for someone, how close he has come, how we are all in this together, and more...
- www.bigsmilemagazine.com
2010-12-13
★★★★★
Ben Lee proved himself as a competent songwriter before his voice changed--and well before he became a celebrity-by-association via his relationship with actress Claire Danes--so it's no surprise that the former indie-rock child prodigy has come up with yet another batch of solid tracks. But this is a different sort of Ben Lee album, and a better one, thanks to the now-24-year-old Aussie's collaboration with producer Dan the Automator of Gorillaz fame...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
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