Radical Face

**Radical Face** is a musical act whose main member is Ben Cooper, who sings and plays multiple instruments. All the sounds are put together on a computer. Cooper is also in Electric President, an electronic music group. However, Radical Face has an acoustic sound.

Radical Face's music has been on television programmes and in the movie _Wish I Was Here_.

## History

Cooper's first album to be recorded under the name Radical Face was _The Junkyard Chandelier_ (2003). The album was never released. However, it can be downloaded for free online. _Ghost_ was the first official studio album, released in March 2007.

On November 16, 2010, Cooper released an EP titled _Touch The Sky_. It was a preview for a trilogy of albums called _Family Tree_. This trilogy is about a fictional family from the 1800s, the Northcotes. It is also really about Cooper's own life. The albums are _The Roots_, _The Branches_, and _The Leaves_.

Another EP, _The Bastards: Volume One_, was released before _The Roots_. In August 2011, iTunes accidentally released _The Roots_ to users outside of the US. It was released in the US on October 4, 2011.

_The Family Tree: The Branches_ was released on October 22, 2013 in America and on November 1 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, before the release of _The Family Tree: The Leaves_ in March 2016. _The Leaves_ has songs that are about Cooper's own life.

_Clone_, an album by Ben Cooper and Richard Colado, was supposed to be released before fall of 2012, but it kept getting delayed. The first track of the album, "The Laboratory", was finally released on September 23, 2014. Cooper then released one track per week.

### Albums

|Title, Notes on release !!Track listing||
| --- | --- |
|_The Junkyard Chandelier_ 2003 Self-released.|#"Stitches In My Side" - 3:27 #"The Scarecrows Are Marching" - 4:51 #"Martyr" - 3:47 #"Chewing Bottles" - 5:14 #"Junkyard Chandelier" - 6:18 #"Paper Birds" - 4:24 #"Fog In The House Of Lightbulbs" - 6:43 #"Runs In The Sidewalk" - 5:36 #"Confidants And Fish Hooks" - 4:59 #"Pockets Full Of Ink" - 5:21 #"Burning Bridges" - 3:13|
|_Ghost_ Released in 2007. "Welcome Home" was awarded _Song of the year_ by "Which?"|#"Asleep On A Train" - 2:00 #"Welcome Home" - 4:45 #"Let The River In" - 5:05 #"Glory" - 6:14 #"The Strangest Things" - 4:25 #"Wrapped In Piano Strings" - 3:37 #"Along The Road" - 4:13 #"Haunted" - 4:43 #"Winter Is Coming" - 4:20 #"Sleepwalking" - 4:43 #"Homesick" - 3:39|
|_The Family Tree: The Roots_ Released in 2011.|#"Names" - 1:15 #"A Pound of Flesh" - 3:35 #"Family Portrait" - 4:40 #"Black Eyes" - 4:44 #"Severus and Stone" - 4:28 #"The Moon Is Down" - 3:18 #"Ghost Towns" - 3:54 #"Kin" - 4:04 #"The Dead Waltz" - 5:23 #"Always Gold" - 5:56 #"Mountains" - 4:51|
|_The Family Tree: The Branches_ Released in 2013.|#"Gray Skies" - 0:43 #"Holy Branches" - 3:38 #"The Mute" - 3:56 #"Reminders" - 3:34 #"Summer Skeletons" - 4:51 #"The Crooked Kind" - 4:39 #"Chains" - 2:11 #"Letters Home" - 4:12 #"From The Mouth Of An Injured Head" - 4:04 #"Southern Snow" - 3:21 #"The Gilded Hand" - 6:15 #"We All Go The Same" - 3:31|
|_The Family Tree: The Leaves_ Released in 2016.|#"Secrets (Cellar Door)" - 4:26 #"Rivers in the Dust" - 5:45 #"Everything Costs" - 3:42 #"Midnight" - 3:10 #"The Ship in Port" - 3:43 #"Photograph" - 2:24 #"Third Family Portrait" - 3:45 #"The Road to Nowhere" - 4:46 #"Old Gemini" - 4:15 #"Bad Blood" - 4:51|

### EPs

|Title|Year|Track listing|
| --- | --- | --- |
|_Touch The Sky EP_|2010|#"Welcome Home (EP Version) - 4:47 #"Glory (Acoustic)" - 4:34 #"Doorways" - 3:00 #"A Little Hell" - 2:13 #"The Deserter's Song" - 4:55 #"Welcome Home (Reprise)" - 2:29|
|_The Bastards: Volume One_|2011|#"All Is Well (It's Only Blood)" - 2:45 #"All Is Well (Goodbye, Goodbye)" - 4:05 #"We're On Our Way" - 4:08|
|_Always Gold EP_|2012|#"Always Gold (Short Attention Span Mix)" - 4:04 #"Echoes" - 3:54 #"Wandering (Alternative Mix)" - 3:46 #"Always Gold (Acoustic)" - 3:38 #"We're On Our Way" - 4:07 #"Always Gold (Album Version)" - 5:55|
|_The Bastards: Volume Two_|2013|#"Second Family Portrait" - 4:55 #"West" - 4:50 #"Letters Home - Aftermath" - 1:18|
|_The Bastards: Volume Three_|2014|#"Sisters" - 3:49 #"Baptisms" - 2:56 #"Nightclothes" - 6:54|
|_The Bastards: Volume Four_|2015|#"Servants And Kings" #"Small Hands"|

### Singles

|rowspan="2" style="width:33px;"|Year|rowspan="2" style="width:150px;"|Title|colspan="3"|Chart|rowspan="2" style="width:100px;"|Certification|rowspan="2" style="width:150px;"|Album|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2011|align=left|"Welcome Home"|83|24|38||_Ghost_|||

### Music videos

|Year|Song|Album|
| --- | --- | --- |
|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|

## Other websites

- Official Page
- The Sounds & Sights of Radical Face - Short documentary by Justin Mitchell
- Radical Face Live in San Francisco - 2011 Behind the Scenes video By Connor Ellmann

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Radical Face
- **background**: solo_singer
- **image**: Radical Face - Haldern Pop Festival 2017 - Alexander Kellner - 2 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Radical Face at Haldern Pop Festival 2017.
- **birth place**: Jacksonville, Florida
- **origin**: Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville
- **genre**: Folk music, folk, Electronic music, electronic
- **occupation**: Singer, songwriter
- **years active**: 2000–present
- **label**: Bear Machine Records, Nettwerk Music Group