"When I started this record, I knew three things: I wanted to make something “pretty.” I wanted it to revolve around acoustic guitars, pianos and field recordings. And after listening to lots of classical music, I wanted to do something more creative with the song structures. It sounded simple on paper, but in reality it was a headache. Piecing the various parts together wasn’t as easy as I thought it was going to be, and my recording situation didn’t help much either. I don’t have a lot of space to call my own, so I record in the tool shed out back. The tool shed is really old and devoid of insulation, and I live alongside a busy road. Whenever a car drives by, the sound leaks into the mics. Therefore, the traffic dictates my recording schedule. Anytime before 12 A.M. is too noisy, so I generally track from 1 in the morning until the 6 O’clock traffic starts up. Also, just outside the tool shed is a water pump. It comes on about every twenty minutes, and it’s really friggin’ loud. Once it shuts off, I’ve got to hurry and lay something down before my twenty minutes are up. This was also the first time I’d ever recorded with anything beyond an 8-track and a Beta 57. At the beginning of the year, I saved up and bought some gear-two condensers, a low-end pre-amp, a four channel mixer, and an $80 compressor. Having never used any of those, it took me a little while to figure them out, and more time still to learn the recording software for my PC. The original plan was to record the album over the course of two months. It took nine. Yay." Ben Cooper, dug up from the radical face website, from 2006, on the waybackmachine.
I love it so much!!! Would love to buy the CD so I can blast it through my house on great big speakers. I love your music, your vision, the tree albums - everything. Was so surprised to find this album on youtube!
00:00 [1] Stitches In My Side 03:28 [2] The Scarecrows Are Marching 08:17 [3] Martyr 12:04 [4] Confidants And Fish Hooks 17:07 [5] Junkyard Chandelier 23:21 [6] Fog In The House Of Lightbulbs 30:03 [7] Pockets Full Of Ink 35:25 [8] Runs In The Sidewalk 40:08 [9] Paper Birds 45:24 [10] Chewing Bottles 50:38 [11] Burning Bridges
Indeed, this is the correct one! The wrong one you mention is the exact reason I went ahead and made this comment in the first place. I also put time stamps. Hope people find it helpful. Glad to see people still listening to this masterpiece of an album!
I feel this album is unfairly rejected, I really love the beautiful and up-beat melodies and even if this album hides in the shadows, I’ll be playing it the car for many years to come. Paper Birds and Martyr in particular I can’t stop playing. I must admit I am far more involved in the lyrics in his later work such as Missing Roads and many more. With this album I just play them because it sounds lovely, I don’t really know the lyrics so well, although I only discovered it recently.
I feel like it's at the same level of ghost, but for different reasons. Whereas the trio feels like 1 big album. So different flavor all together. I'm hoping that the new album is something like this.
For me the trio is lopsided, the first is unbelievably incredible, branches had some of that magic, and the Leaves unfortunately is hurt by a certain ‘cheese’ factor :/
@@beanfotchott3303 I see what you mean as well. Personally what I prefer about the roots is how musical it is. The leaves doesn't strike me in that way quite as much.
*TRACK LIST* 1) stitches in my side 2) the scarecrows are marching 3) martyr 4) chewing bottles 5) junkyard chandelier 6) paper birds 7) fog in the house of lightbulbs 8) runs in the sidewalk 9) confidants and fish hooks 10)pocket full of ink 11) burning bridges
@@aknightthatsaysnee5259 Thank the powers that be for the Wayback Machine... web.archive.org/web/20160109184956/old.radicalface.com/music/thejunkyardchandelier.zip
@@aknightthatsaysnee5259 No worries, I had to dig it up for myself anyway for my lil FB page facebook.com/An-Album-a-Day-during-Lockdown-109147160725323/
![liminal [Full Album Stream]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/E4467vyDo4A/mqdefault.jpg)
"When I started this record, I knew three things: I wanted to make something “pretty.” I wanted it to revolve around acoustic guitars, pianos and field recordings. And after listening to lots of classical music, I wanted to do something more creative with the song structures. It sounded simple on paper, but in reality it was a headache. Piecing the various parts together wasn’t as easy as I thought it was going to be, and my recording situation didn’t help much either.
I don’t have a lot of space to call my own, so I record in the tool shed out back. The tool shed is really old and devoid of insulation, and I live alongside a busy road. Whenever a car drives by, the sound leaks into the mics. Therefore, the traffic dictates my recording schedule. Anytime before 12 A.M. is too noisy, so I generally track from 1 in the morning until the 6 O’clock traffic starts up.
Also, just outside the tool shed is a water pump. It comes on about every twenty minutes, and it’s really friggin’ loud. Once it shuts off, I’ve got to hurry and lay something down before my twenty minutes are up.
This was also the first time I’d ever recorded with anything beyond an 8-track and a Beta 57. At the beginning of the year, I saved up and bought some gear-two condensers, a low-end pre-amp, a four channel mixer, and an $80 compressor. Having never used any of those, it took me a little while to figure them out, and more time still to learn the recording software for my PC.
The original plan was to record the album over the course of two months. It took nine. Yay."
Ben Cooper, dug up from the radical face website, from 2006, on the waybackmachine.
I love it so much!!! Would love to buy the CD so I can blast it through my house on great big speakers. I love your music, your vision, the tree albums - everything. Was so surprised to find this album on youtube!
ben cooper PLEASE put this on spotify
00:00 [1] Stitches In My Side
03:28 [2] The Scarecrows Are Marching
08:17 [3] Martyr
12:04 [4] Confidants And Fish Hooks
17:07 [5] Junkyard Chandelier
23:21 [6] Fog In The House Of Lightbulbs
30:03 [7] Pockets Full Of Ink
35:25 [8] Runs In The Sidewalk
40:08 [9] Paper Birds
45:24 [10] Chewing Bottles
50:38 [11] Burning Bridges
is this the correct one? i saw someone else’s that is completely different and i just want to make sure this is the actual one!
Indeed, this is the correct one! The wrong one you mention is the exact reason I went ahead and made this comment in the first place. I also put time stamps. Hope people find it helpful. Glad to see people still listening to this masterpiece of an album!
I've been listening to Radical Face for years but only just now discovered this album. As usual, I'm instantly in love.
52:53 hey look it's the seeds of later radical face. Ben cooper is a fucking legend
thank you for posting this... he sounds so young !! ive never heard any of these, they are so good
this album gives me nostalgia without me ever actually having listened to it before. it's like its entire vibe is just nostalgia
Time stamp singularity 💜 overture 🦄💋👑💲💱❌️✔️🔶️🔷️🔻🔺️💠🔘🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🪀🥸
Been listening to Ben for at least 12 years now, just finding this
Exactly the same
I get a warm feeling listening to this :)
I feel this album is unfairly rejected, I really love the beautiful and up-beat melodies and even if this album hides in the shadows, I’ll be playing it the car for many years to come. Paper Birds and Martyr in particular I can’t stop playing.
I must admit I am far more involved in the lyrics in his later work such as Missing Roads and many more. With this album I just play them because it sounds lovely, I don’t really know the lyrics so well, although I only discovered it recently.
I feel like it's at the same level of ghost, but for different reasons. Whereas the trio feels like 1 big album. So different flavor all together. I'm hoping that the new album is something like this.
For me the trio is lopsided, the first is unbelievably incredible, branches had some of that magic, and the Leaves unfortunately is hurt by a certain ‘cheese’ factor :/
@@beanfotchott3303 hmm, I can see where you're going to a certain extent
@@beanfotchott3303 like the powers being a little silly? Also what do you think of the bastards?
@@beanfotchott3303 I see what you mean as well. Personally what I prefer about the roots is how musical it is. The leaves doesn't strike me in that way quite as much.
Chewing Bottles is that hidden gem that should be stupidly famous.
That and Martyr
Very good music.. different from the current musical bands....
*TRACK LIST*
1) stitches in my side
2) the scarecrows are marching
3) martyr
4) chewing bottles
5) junkyard chandelier
6) paper birds
7) fog in the house of lightbulbs
8) runs in the sidewalk
9) confidants and fish hooks
10)pocket full of ink
11) burning bridges
can you add timestamps for songs my man?
u got a tracklist
Oh, so that's the bird he was apologizing that he couldn't help
Ben von wtf brother ❤️
Just a beautiful album 😊❤️👍🎶🎼
WOW! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR MUSIC.
how can I find this?!!!
You can download for free from his website
I just checked the website and it is not there.
@@aknightthatsaysnee5259 Thank the powers that be for the Wayback Machine... web.archive.org/web/20160109184956/old.radicalface.com/music/thejunkyardchandelier.zip
Mark Armstrong Thanks!
@@aknightthatsaysnee5259 No worries, I had to dig it up for myself anyway for my lil FB page facebook.com/An-Album-a-Day-during-Lockdown-109147160725323/