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The Family Tree: The Bastards
Singer-Songwriter · 2015 · 11 tracks · 43m

The Family Tree: The Bastards

Radical Face

A lush, hand-crafted collection of folk tales. Layered harmonies and found-sound percussion create a dusty, sepia-toned world of family secrets.

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It's like a haunted Victorian scrapbook turned into a beautiful, stomping folk record.

A ghostly, sepia-toned exploration of family secrets and forgotten histories.

The Family Tree: The Bastards · vs · Radical Face
Storytelling+1.1σ

The writing leans notably further into storytelling than the rest of the catalogue.

Moments Worth Waiting For
The rhythmic transition where floorboard creaks and handclaps become the primary percussion bed.
A massive wall of thirty layered vocal tracks blooming suddenly out of a sparse piano melody.
The haunting use of a detuned music box that anchors the album's most ghostly narrative thread.
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