Favourite Music Thursday – The Mute by Radical Face

I only recently discovered Radical Face’s music on Noisetrade and was intrigued by the concept behind the music. On his website, Ben Cooper says:

“I just wanted to write a family saga. It's something I'd wanted to do for a long time. But I was timid at first. Family is a big topic from me, being from a large and atypical one, and I was hesitant to start for fear I'd do a shitty job of it. But once I started writing for it, it all kinda poured out. I started writing for it in 2007. I came up with a fictional family tree -- a Frankenstein of random genealogy charts, my own family history, some of my personal experiences and plain old fiction -- and used that as the basis for the songs. When I started organizing the record in 2009, I had over 45 songs to work with, even after ditching the ones I wasn't so sure of.”

The songs Ben Cooper wrote, are poignant, bittersweet, dark and sometimes very sad. But there is such a quality to them that I can’t stop listening.

For more about Radical Face, click here for the website, here for Noisetrade, and here for SoundCloud. In SA, the albums are available on iTunes.

The one I especially keep returning to is “The Mute”. The song is haunting and beautiful, and I adore the music video. I hope you enjoy it as well!