Claude says:Ben Cooper puts out The Family Tree albums as Radical Face — a full trilogy about the fictional Northcote family across four generations, with each instrument chosen to fit the 19th-century timeline. The songs that didn't make those records ended up as The Bastards EPs, and this first volume has the same careful folk arrangements and vague family mythology, though without the pressure of carrying a narrative forward. You left a few scattered plays in 2022 and 2024, then came back to it in spring 2026 — fifteen years after release — and locked into "All Is Well (Goodbye, Goodbye)" and "Baptisms" through May.