Radical Face

Ben Cooper (Radical Face) has a new project called "The family tree". Here is what he has to say about it: “My next Radical Face record is actually being split into three full length albums. I wanted to write an album on the topic of family. As a vehicle for this, I came up with a fictional family tree ranging from 1800 to around 1950, cobbled together from genealogy charts and personal experiences and stories I’ve read. Then I spent about 2 years writing songs about it. When I sat down to pull all the material together, it boiled down to almost 40 songs. So I decided to organize it as a trilogy, because I’m a nerd and I have a soft spot for trilogies, and to call the set “The Family Tree”, with the first album being dubbed “The Roots”, the second “The Branches” and the third “The Relatives”.”

During the process of writing songs for the project, he also wrote a few that didn’t quite fit, so he is releasing free EPs which are part of a series called "Bastards". You can download Volume 1 below.