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- Original Release Date: 30 Jan 2012
- Format - Music: MP3
- Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
- Also available in CD Format
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| Play | 1. Names | 1:15 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 2. A Pound Of Flesh | 3:34 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 3. Family Portrait | 4:40 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 4. Black Eyes | 4:44 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 5. Severus And Stone | 4:28 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 6. The Moon Is Down | 3:18 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 7. Ghost Towns | 3:53 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 8. Kin | 4:04 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 9. The Dead Waltz | 5:23 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 10. Always Gold | 5:55 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 11. Mountains | 4:52 | £0.69 |
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Under the title Radical Face (one of many monikers), the always impressive Ben Cooper has created what is, in my book, the best Indie album of 2011. Following on from his amazing first solo album Ghost in 2006, and equally impressive Touch the Sky EP in 2010, Ben has undertaken the formidable task of self producing and promoting what is the first in an intended series of three albums inspired by his family history.
The Family Tree: The Roots is a captivatingly fluid album that, from start to finish, explores the tender and often painfully dark side of our past and those relationships we hold dear. Musically it is a stunningly layered creation, at times soaring through piano and acoustic guitar flourishes, at others entrancing you with its hypnotic percussion and vocals. This album is a success on so many levels it is difficult to identify them all in such a short review. Whilst compositionally and lyrically it is an amazing album, perhaps its greatest success is that it is, from start to finish, proof that the talent and vision of a single person can be so beautifully expressed within the limited space of a single album.
Whilst there are tracks on the album that rise above the rest, The Family Tree deserves to be enjoyed in its entirety - like a book, from begining to end. It would be difficult to find another album released this year that has restored my faith in the music industry as much as this. Whilst Radical Face is the epitome of the "starving artist", recording in his back yard tool shed; running his own record label; creating his own graphic art; this album stands testament to what visionary and non-commercially motivated artists can achieve. Do yourself a favour...visit his website and show this guy your support.
The Family Tree: The Roots is a captivatingly fluid album that, from start to finish, explores the tender and often painfully dark side of our past and those relationships we hold dear. Musically it is a stunningly layered creation, at times soaring through piano and acoustic guitar flourishes, at others entrancing you with its hypnotic percussion and vocals. This album is a success on so many levels it is difficult to identify them all in such a short review. Whilst compositionally and lyrically it is an amazing album, perhaps its greatest success is that it is, from start to finish, proof that the talent and vision of a single person can be so beautifully expressed within the limited space of a single album.
Whilst there are tracks on the album that rise above the rest, The Family Tree deserves to be enjoyed in its entirety - like a book, from begining to end. It would be difficult to find another album released this year that has restored my faith in the music industry as much as this. Whilst Radical Face is the epitome of the "starving artist", recording in his back yard tool shed; running his own record label; creating his own graphic art; this album stands testament to what visionary and non-commercially motivated artists can achieve. Do yourself a favour...visit his website and show this guy your support.
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I've been following Radical Face for a while now and this album, as with all the others is everything I hoped, I would definitely recommend buying it if you're into this genre.
Format:Audio CD
Ben Cooper is a prolific independent artist and musician who releases music under a whole range of identities, Electric President being perhaps the best known of them. Radical Face is a rather different and largely acoustic solo project, lovingly crafted out of piano, finger-picked guitar and multi-tracked harmonies.
Cooper doesn't have the strongest voice, but like Mercury Rev or Elliot Smith, that works in his favour in the musical and lyrical setting that he has created. The Roots is the first in a proposed trilogy of albums exploring a fictional family tree, and it gives the album a set of characters and its own internal mythology. (It's a trick that works for Midlake) Songs are stories, cryptic and intriguing, full of dreams and visions, tragedy and exile. It's haunting and imaginative.
Those stories reveal themselves over repeat listens, but it's the music that has to guarantee those repeat listens and it does so with ease. The album opens with the hushed intro 'Names', and then flowers into the piano-led 'Pound of Flesh'. It's a good example of Radical Face at its best, a beautiful song with a hint of something sinister. 'Black Eyes' hammers that old piano, 'Always Gold' drops to a single one-finger piano line and ticking, then bursts into harmonium. My personal favourite is 'Ghost Trains', which boasts a lovely rising piano riff and a handclapped chorus - hand percussion being one of the distinctive recurring sounds here.
The Roots is a strange and beautiful album, but what makes it one of my favourites of the last couple of years is the coherence of its vision. The music and the lyrics work perfectly together. It exists in a world of its own, right down to the faintly echoey production, no doubt the entirely deliberate result of recording it in a tool shed. It's a real work of art.
Cooper doesn't have the strongest voice, but like Mercury Rev or Elliot Smith, that works in his favour in the musical and lyrical setting that he has created. The Roots is the first in a proposed trilogy of albums exploring a fictional family tree, and it gives the album a set of characters and its own internal mythology. (It's a trick that works for Midlake) Songs are stories, cryptic and intriguing, full of dreams and visions, tragedy and exile. It's haunting and imaginative.
Those stories reveal themselves over repeat listens, but it's the music that has to guarantee those repeat listens and it does so with ease. The album opens with the hushed intro 'Names', and then flowers into the piano-led 'Pound of Flesh'. It's a good example of Radical Face at its best, a beautiful song with a hint of something sinister. 'Black Eyes' hammers that old piano, 'Always Gold' drops to a single one-finger piano line and ticking, then bursts into harmonium. My personal favourite is 'Ghost Trains', which boasts a lovely rising piano riff and a handclapped chorus - hand percussion being one of the distinctive recurring sounds here.
The Roots is a strange and beautiful album, but what makes it one of my favourites of the last couple of years is the coherence of its vision. The music and the lyrics work perfectly together. It exists in a world of its own, right down to the faintly echoey production, no doubt the entirely deliberate result of recording it in a tool shed. It's a real work of art.
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