Chamber pop folk songs and campfire hymns from Electric President's Ben Cooper. A stunning long player of emotive, vocal-based songwriting that variously calls to mind Paul Simon, ben Gibbard & Sufjan Stevens.

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Ben Cooper has a few names he works under; as Radical Face, he creates an album that's possibly one of the best debut takes on whatever the word Americana is supposed to represent in the 21st century. But instead of dour re-creations of music that even Uncle Tupelo would have rejected, Ghost is something that lives up to its name -- a strange, murky presence that sometimes is not entirely there, but in the best, most suggestive way. Cooper's singing is understated but sweetly calming, a g...   [ read more ]

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Lyrics: "S.C.O.O.T.E.R. infect ya!" Or, "Rough bad on the case, I wanna hit your face / Music that's the law, we're gonna rock the place." Or even -- my personal favorite -- "Rocking to the, rocking to the, rocking to the beat I, rocking to the rhythm of a groovy beat / Beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, beat." Music: carbonated dance jingles trying to cash in on all that hip "rave" culture. Think Casio beats, {#T2} keyboards, and fake crowd noises pip...   [ read more ]

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