in which ben cooper brings it

so, i have thing for stomp/clap music. for some reason, whenever i hear one of these attributes (or, even better, BOTH at the same time!), it instantly makes a song something like 100 times better. so simple, right? no instrument needed other than hands and feet and a song is transformed with beats that a person is helpless to resist.

such is the song shared today. welcome home, by radical son, has plenty of hand claps and stomps to enjoy. it's also got brilliant lyrics that rivals any poet's. ben cooper, who fronts radical face and electric president (both worthy of your time), is such a talented singer-songwriter:

sleep don't visit, so i choke on sun

and the days blur into one

and the backs of my eyes hum with things i've never done



sheets are swaying from an old clothesline

like a row of captured ghosts over old dead grass

was never much but we made the most

welcome home



ships are launching from my chest

some have names but most do not

if you find one, please let me know what piece i've lost



heal the scars from off my back

i don't need them anymore

you can throw them out or keep them in your mason jars

i've come home



all my nightmares escaped my head

bar the door, please don't let them in

you were never supposed to leave

now my head's splitting at the seams

and i don't know if i can



here, beneath my lungs, i feel your thumbs press into my skin again

gorgeous. simply gorgeous.

(mp3) welcome home by radical face (via indie music)

buy radical face's ghost, the album welcome home, son is off of, HERE.

like ben cooper's work? go HERE for a free album or HERE for a bunch of free tracks he never got around to putting on an album. of note:

(mp3) things worth fighting for by radical face