In his 30-year music career, Ben Lee has been gloriously prolific and unpredictable. There have been chart hits (Cigarettes Will Kill You, Gamble Everything For Love, We’re All in This Together and Catch My Disease. An instrumental album inspired by the use of psychoactive drugs (Ayahuasca: Welcome to the Work). An album for kids (Ben Lee Sings Songs About Islam For The Whole Family).
Mid-pandemic, Ben moved his family from the US to Sydney – playing 40 live shows around Australia before touring wound down again.
He’d started working on a new album while touring 2019’s Quarter Century Classics – a record of cover versions of songs he loved as a teenager (Pixies, The Breeders, Sebadoh, Smudge, Fugazi).
His original plan to record with a live band became another victim of the pandemic. Ben instead made the album remotely, with producers including Jon Brion, Shamir, Sadie Dupuis and Darren Seltmann and guests Zooey Deschanel, Christian Lee Hutson, Money Mark, Megan Washington, Georgia Maq and Eric D Johnson.

After years as an indie artist (including for his biggest album, 2005’s Awake is the New Asleep), Ben has signed an international deal with Warner to release I’m Fun – exactly the way he made it.