Claude says:The final chapter in Ben Cooper's trilogy about the fictional Northcote family — a 19th century Southern clan whose Faulknerian dramas he traced across three albums. It sticks to the gentle modern folk template of The Roots and The Branches, with a few songs nodding to mid-2000s Sufjan Stevens, and closes the epic project with standouts like "Rivers in the Dust" and "Midnight". You grabbed it in late 2021 and have circled back to "Everything Costs" and "Secrets (Cellar door)" a couple times since, but it hasn't fully stuck.