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Ben Folds Five 'may reform for new album'

Published Monday, Sep 19 2011, 22:44 BST | By Tom Eames | Add comment

Ben Folds has revealed that his band the Ben Folds Five may reunite for a new album later this year.

The 'Rockin' the Suburbs' singer said that he and his bandmates Robert Sledge and Darren Jessee will "probably get together" in the winter to record new material.

Ben Folds Five's last full album was 1999's The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner. They recorded three tracks together for Folds's album The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective, which will be released on October 11.

Folds teased that he would be interested in recording some "radical" tracks if they were to get together again.

"We did three things that we could do quickly for the record, and there were all these other ideas that I was bringing in that were really more radical," he told Spinner. "So I think in December we'll probably get together to do that as long as I have enough material when I come back in."

Ben Folds is currently a judge on NBC's The Sing-Off, and was joined by singer Sara Bareilles earlier this year.

Watch the video for Ben Folds Five's 'Song for the Dumped' below: