For the better part of the past half-decade, Ben Lee has been in his “passion project” era. In the five years that followed his 11th album – 2016’s Freedom, Love And The Recuperation Of The Human Mind – the Sydney-native indie-pop hero (and shitposting pioneer) released an album of children’s music about Islam (Ben Lee Sings Songs About Islam For The Whole Family), a musical epic about beer (B Is For Beer: The Musical), a covers record of songs that inspired Lee in his teens (Quarter Century Classix), and two records as one half of Radnor & Lee with How I Met Your Mother star Josh Radnor.
Now, Lee has returned to his roots for – an album of quirky, folk-tinged indie-rock
