Radical Face Releases SunnMoonnEclippse EP

This Friday night and early Saturday morning a host of rare celestial occurrences overlap: a "penumbra" lunar eclipse, a full "snow" moon, the flyby of a comet - and a new release by indie auteur Radical Face. A short run of dates in support of the release begins February 23rd in San Diego, CA. Cast your eyes skyward and lose yourself in the SunnMoonnEclippse:

Youtube: https://youtu.be/8ZxeN_wZUio
Spotify: http://tinyurl.com/zzfanw3

Make SunnMoonnEclippse your own:

iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/zu3zk2s
Bandcamp: https://radicalface.bandcamp.com/album/sunnmoonneclippse

The SunnMoonnEclippse EP is the first release that's not part of Ben Cooper's highly acclaimed three-album conceptual saga, The Family Tree: The Roots (2011), The Branches (2013), and The Leaves (2016). Those records saw broad acclaim, with coverage by NPR, Paste, Diffuser, The BBC, The Independent, The Wild Honey Pie, and more. In support Cooper performed on multiple continents and on Last Call with Carson Daly, amassed over 66 million Spotify streams, and all three debuted in the Top 30 of Billboard's Heatseekers chart on release.

Says Cooper: "I made the SunnMoonnEclippse EP alongside my friend Gordon McBryde, while he was building the visuals. It's meant to be viewed as well as heard -- I let the visuals affect the music, and vice-versa -- so it'll first exist as a website. Then it'll move on to all the usual culprits, for just regular listening if you're into the music. But it's been really fun. Never done the two side-by-side like that. Usually visuals are a totally separate process. Thematically the songs run in a complete loop, so it's meant to be listened to and/or viewed as a complete circle drawing inspiration from the cycle of the rotation of the Sun and Moon.

This is the first group of songs I've recorded since wrapping up 'The Family Tree' project. To go from eight years of the same material to total freedom was pretty odd. I had no restrictions on how I produced it, or what I would talk about. I found myself just writing about where I'm at now, in my actual life, and not through characters or disguises. I'm producing the tracks entirely based on sounds that I like right now - drum samples from old records, pianos played with old mellotron master tapes, tracking vocals with almost-broken microphones. And this is the first EP where none of the songs sound very similar. It's felt both terribly freeing and a bit nervewracking. I welcome both things. I'm having fun in a way that I haven't in a long time."

Radical Face on tour:

Feb.23- San Diego @ The Irenic
Feb.24- Santa Cruz @ Bret Harte Hall
Feb.26- San Francisco @ The Fillmore **Noisepop Festival Headline Show**

FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT:

https://www.facebook.com/RadicalFace/
https://www.radicalface.com

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