Claude says:Ben Cooper built The Family Tree trilogy around the fictional Northcote family, tracking four generations through the 19th and early 20th centuries with period-appropriate instruments — banjos, pianos, horns that could've existed when the stories unfold. The Roots, the first installment, layers folk bones with electronic shimmer, turning family mythology into something both ghostly and grounded. You came to it in 2025, fourteen years after release, and "Ghost Towns" became the anchor — a song that keeps pulling you back across multiple listens.