Radical Face

Radical Face is a musical act whose main member is Ben Cooper.

Radical Face
Radical Face at Haldern Pop Festival 2017.
Background information
BornJacksonville, Florida
OriginJacksonville
GenresFolk, electronic
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter
Years active2000–present
LabelsBear Machine Records, Nettwerk Music Group
Websitewww.radicalface.com

History

Cooper chose the name Radical Face upon seeing it on a flyer. He later found out it was a plastic surgery flyer saying 'Radical Face-Lift' with the word 'lift' ripped off.[1]

Cooper's first album to be recorded under the Radical Face pseudonym was The Junkyard Chandelier (2003). The album was never formally released but has since been available as a free download online. Ghost was the first official studio album, released by Radical Face in March 2007.

On November 16, 2010, Cooper released a six-track EP titled Touch The Sky, which served as an appetizer for an announced trilogy of albums called Family Tree, which follows the tale of a fictional family, the Northcotes, through its generations. It is dedicated to the first two generations of the Northcotes family tree and is narratively based in the 1800s.[2]

Leading up to the release of the first album, The Roots, The Bastards: Volume One EP was released track by track, the first of a number of free EPs over the course of the Family Tree project. The Roots was released on October 4, 2011. In August The Roots was accidentally released to users outside of the US on iTunes. It was followed by The Branches and The Leaves.[3]

The Family Tree: The Branches was released on October 22, 2013 in America and on November 1st in Europe. The Bastards: Volume Two was also released that year.

The Bastards: Volume Three and The Bastards: Volume Four were both released in 2015, leading up to the release of The Family Tree: The Leaves in March 2016.The song "Nightclothes" is dedicated to Cooper's late sister, Hannah Cooper.[4]

A series of EPs are planned to be released throughout 2017, the first being SunnMoonnEclippse, released February 10. The EPs full video is available on a website of the same name.

Clone, an album by Ben Cooper and Richard Colado, was announced to be released through Bear Machine Records and available by fall of 2012.[5] After many delays, the first track of Clone, The Laboratory, was released on September 23, 2014.[6] The album was released in acts, Cooper adding one act per week to release the album. Each track has a full explanation of the act available at projectclone.com. 'Laser-engraved crystal thumb drives' were designed as an alternative medium for the album.[7]

The single "Welcome Home" was played at the beginning of the first episode for the TV series The Returned. It was then used as theme in Nikon's worldwide campaign "I'M NIKON".

The songs "Welcome Home", "Baptisms", "Always Gold", "The Road to Nowhere", "Summer Skeletons", "Letters Home" were featured in the American crime thriller television series The Blacklist.

In late 2018, Cooper released his 6th album "Missing Film", which is appropriately entitled, as the album was intended to be used by indie film makers royalty free under creative commons, or in Cooper's own words, "So basically, as long as you are not selling something, then you can use any of it without needing my explicit permission." As one would imagine, the album consists only of instrumental work, a departure from his previous work, but unsurprising as Radical Face has released several songs that have been used in television and movies because of the emotional nature of Cooper's songwriting.

In 2020, Cooper will release the album Into the Woods, while releasing songs that are produced but not yet released along the way as singles. The first one was "Reveries", released in January 2020.

Starting in August 2020, Cooper is releasing a monthly mailer named "Hidden Hollow". An original Radical Face song will also be releasing alongside it.

Discography

Albums
Title,
Notes on release		Track listing
The Junkyard Chandelier

2003

Self-released.
  1. "Stitches In My Side" - 3:27
  2. "The Scarecrows Are Marching" - 4:51
  3. "Martyr" - 3:47
  4. "Chewing Bottles" - 5:14
  5. "Junkyard Chandelier" - 6:18
  6. "Paper Birds" - 4:24
  7. "Fog In The House Of Lightbulbs" - 6:43
  8. "Runs In The Sidewalk" - 5:36
  9. "Confidants And Fish Hooks" - 4:59
  10. "Pockets Full Of Ink" - 5:21
  11. "Burning Bridges" - 3:13
Ghost

Released in 2007.

"Welcome Home" was awarded Song of the year by "Which?"
  1. "Asleep On A Train" - 2:00
  2. "Welcome Home" - 4:45
  3. "Let The River In" - 5:05
  4. "Glory" - 6:14
  5. "The Strangest Things" - 4:25
  6. "Wrapped In Piano Strings" - 3:37
  7. "Along The Road" - 4:13
  8. "Haunted" - 4:43
  9. "Winter Is Coming" - 4:20
  10. "Sleepwalking" - 4:43
  11. "Homesick" - 3:39
The Family Tree: The Roots

Released in 2011.
  1. "Names" - 1:15
  2. "A Pound of Flesh" - 3:35
  3. "Family Portrait" - 4:40
  4. "Black Eyes" - 4:44
  5. "Severus and Stone" - 4:28
  6. "The Moon Is Down" - 3:18
  7. "Ghost Towns" - 3:54
  8. "Kin" - 4:04
  9. "The Dead Waltz" - 5:23
  10. "Always Gold" - 5:56
  11. "Mountains" - 4:51
The Family Tree: The Branches

Released in 2013.
  1. "Gray Skies" - 0:43
  2. "Holy Branches" - 3:38
  3. "The Mute" - 3:56
  4. "Reminders" - 3:34
  5. "Summer Skeletons" - 4:51
  6. "The Crooked Kind" - 4:39
  7. "Chains" - 2:11
  8. "Letters Home" - 4:12
  9. "From The Mouth Of An Injured Head" - 4:04
  10. "Southern Snow" - 3:21
  11. "The Gilded Hand" - 6:15
  12. "We All Go The Same" - 3:31
The Family Tree: The Leaves

Released in 2016.
  1. "Secrets (Cellar Door)" - 4:26
  2. "Rivers in the Dust" - 5:45
  3. "Everything Costs" - 3:42
  4. "Midnight" - 3:10
  5. "The Ship in Port" - 3:43
  6. "Photograph" - 2:24
  7. "Third Family Portrait" - 3:45
  8. "The Road to Nowhere" - 4:46
  9. "Old Gemini" - 4:15
  10. "Bad Blood" - 4:51
Missing Film

Released in 2018.
  1. Ashes - 2:06
  2. I'll Be There Soon - 2:16
  3. Ashes In The Wind - 2:56
  4. Home Movies - 3:49
  5. Hearsay - 0:52
  6. Tension - 2:11
  7. Leaving The Ground - 2:17
  8. Waltzing In The Ashes - 2:09
  9. Hunted - 1:17
  10. The Lost Garden - 1:50
  11. We All Fall Down - 2:31
  12. Horizon Lines - 5:06
Ghost(Anniversary Edition)

Released in 2019.
  1. "Asleep On a Train(Remastered)" - 2:01
  2. "Welcome Home(Remastered)" - 4:46
  3. "Let the River In(Remastered)" - 5:05
  4. "Glory(Remastered)" - 6:11
  5. "The Strangest Things(Remastered)" - 4:24
  6. "Wrapped in Piano Strings(Remastered)" - 3:37
  7. "Along the Road(Remastered)" - 4:16
  8. "Haunted(Remastered)" - 4:43
  9. "Winter is Coming(Remastered)" -4:22
  10. "Sleepwalking(Remastered)" - 4:41
  11. "homesick(Remastered)" - 3:43
  12. "Asleep On a Train(Strings)" - 1:28
  13. "Glory(Live)" - 4:30
  14. "Let the River In(Instrumental)" - 2:05
  15. "Wrapped in Piano Strings(Live)" - 3:35
  16. "Haunted(Instrumental)" - 2:31
  17. "Along the Road(Live) - 5:11
  18. "Asleep On a Train(Piano)" - 2:09
  19. "Welcome Home(Orchestral)" - 4:03
  20. "Sleepwalking(Acoustic)" - 3:49
  21. "The Strangest Things(Music Box)" - 1:54
  22. "Winter is Coming(Live) - 4:35
  23. "Homesick(Piano) - 3:37

EPs
TitleYearTrack listing
Touch The Sky EP 2010
  1. "Welcome Home (EP Version) - 4:47
  2. "Glory (Acoustic)" - 4:34
  3. "Doorways" - 3:00
  4. "A Little Hell" - 2:13
  5. "The Deserter's Song" - 4:55
  6. "Welcome Home (Reprise)" - 2:29
The Bastards: Volume One 2011
  1. "All Is Well (It's Only Blood)" - 2:45
  2. "All Is Well (Goodbye, Goodbye)" - 4:05
  3. "We're On Our Way" - 4:08
Always Gold EP 2012
  1. "Always Gold (Short Attention Span Mix)" - 4:04
  2. "Echoes" - 3:54
  3. "Wandering (Alternative Mix)" - 3:46
  4. "Always Gold (Acoustic)" - 3:38
  5. "We're On Our Way" - 4:07
  6. "Always Gold (Album Version)" - 5:55
The Bastards: Volume Two 2013
  1. "Second Family Portrait" - 4:55
  2. "West" - 4:50
  3. "Letters Home - Aftermath" - 1:18
The Bastards: Volume Three 2014
  1. "Sisters" - 3:49
  2. "Baptisms" - 2:56
  3. "Nightclothes" - 6:54
The Bastards: Volume Four 2015
  1. "Servants And Kings" - 4:30
  2. "Small Hands" - 3:09
SunnMoonnEclippse 2017
  1. "Sunn" - 4:15
  2. "Moonn" - 4:14
  3. "Eclippse" - 6:54
Covers, Volume 1: "Lady Covers" 2018
  1. "Jolene" - 3:25
  2. "Ode to My Family" - 4:32
  3. "The Goonies "R" Good Enough" - 2:59
  4. "Video Games" - 3:27
  5. "Nothing Compares 2 U" - 4:07
  6. "Memory" - 6:06
Therapy 2019
  1. "Doubt" - 3:28
  2. "Hard of Hearing" - 3:10
  3. "Personal Giants" - 3:52
  4. "Guilt" - 3:32
  5. "Better Days" - 2:35
  6. "Dead Ends" - 4:24
Reveries 2020
  1. "Reveries" - 3:28
The Missing Road 2020
  1. "The Missing Road" - 4:12
Sunlight 2020
  1. "Sunlight" - 3:53
More Clay Than Stone (Still On Our Way) 2020
  1. "More Clay Than Stone (Still On Our Way" - 3:29
The River With No Name 2020
  1. "The River With No Name" - 3:08

Singles
Year Title Chart Certification Album
FR
[8]		 NED
[9]		 SWI
2011 "Welcome Home" 83 24 38 Ghost

Music videos
YearSongAlbum
2007"Welcome Home"Ghost
2010"Doorways"Touch The Sky EP
2012"We're On Our Way"The Bastards: Volume One
2012"A Pound of Flesh"The Family Tree: The Roots
2012"Always Gold"The Family Tree: The Roots
2013"Holy Branches"The Family Tree: The Branches
2014"The Mute"The Family Tree: The Branches
2016"Secrets (Cellar Door)"The Family Tree: The Leaves
2016"The Road To Nowhere"The Family Tree: The Leaves
2016"Everything Costs"The Family Tree: The Leaves
2017 "Sunn"

"Moonn"

"Eclippse"

 SunnMoonnEclippse
2019"Doubt"Therapy
2019"Hard of Hearing" Therapy

References
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  3. "Radical Face – Touch The Sky [EP]". Randomville.com. 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  4. Robin Murray (2016-01-28). "Premiere: Radical Face - 'Secrets (Cellar Door)'". Clash.
  5. "YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  6. "Clone | Act 1: The Laboratory". YouTube. 2014-09-23. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  7. "Radical Face". Radical Face. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
  8. Steffen Hung. "Discographie Radical Face". lescharts.com. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
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