Radical Face来自佛罗里达的Jacksonville。本名Ben Cooper，开创新民谣风格的艺人，与Alax Kane组成Electric President并且在04年发行同名专辑《Electric President》。这张11首歌曲的《Ghost》是一张内敛中显露出音乐上的野心的作品。专辑中稍带一些Lo-fi和实验的味道，其外表却是飞扬流畅的旋律构思。用钢琴，吉他，伴奏乐器，手风琴及声乐来演奏乐观、优美的民谣作品。大量的情感的输出，无论如何都难以掩饰其音乐深处迷人的本质。
Ghost is a set of layered songs full of inticate details that need to be taken as a whole to be fully appreciated. I notice new nuances with each listen. Highlights include the bass drum rocky beat of “Winter is Coming”, the hand slapping “Welcome Home Son”, and the marching feet with piano of “Glory”.
This is a long way from punk rock. If you like the gentler sounds of artists such as Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon, Air, or perhaps even the Eels and Arcade Fire then Cooper’s magic will likely appeal to you. If you can appreciate good music that grows on you with every listen until it enters your soul – buy this cd! It would be a disaster of the worst kind if Radical Face fails to find its audience.
2004 – Ghost
01. Asleep on a Train (02:00)
02. Welcome Home (04:46)
03. Let the River In (05:05)
04. Glory (06:11)
05. The Strangest Things (04:24)
06. Wrapped in Piano Strings (03:36)
07. Along the Road (04:16)
08. Haunted (04:43)
09. Winter Is Coming (04:22)
10. Sleepwalking (04:41)
11. Homesick (03:42)
2013 – The Family Tree: The Branches
1 “Gray Skies” – 0:43
2 “Holy Branches” – 3:37
3 “The Mute” – 3:56
4 “Reminders” – 3:33
5 “Summer Skeletons” – 4:50
6 “The Crooked Kind” – 4:39
7 “Chains” – 2:11
8 “Letters Home” – 4:11
9 “From the Mouth of an Injured Head” – 4:04
10 “Southern Snow” – 3:21
11 “The Gilded Hand” – 6:14
12 “We All Go the Same” – 3:30
