Release Date 23rd January 2026
Indies Only Bauxite Vinyl 2LP
Craven Faults is a genuine word-of-mouth success story based on meticulous world building, attention to craft and recognition of those trailblazing artists, studios and producers that have paved the way.
An element of anonymity and intrigue has been maintained throughout, while giving fans enough information to go much deeper if they’re inclined to dig.
Sidings will be released on black vinyl 2LP and INDIES ONLY ’Freight Bauxite’ vinyl limited to 1,000 copies for the world.
All vinyl editions are pressed at The Vinyl Factory and packaged in a gatefold sleeve with format specific obi strip printed on Fedrigoni Materica paper.
In addition, the limited Indies Only variant will include a 12-page photobook.
As well as the single CD version, the album will also be presented as a four CD box set in an edition of 1,000 (INDIES ONLY) , including newly remastered versions of all tracks from Bounds and Thwaite Watermill plus the full ‘May Birching’ broadcast, none of which have previously been available on CD
The CD box includes two separate booklets.
All packaging formats mirror previous major Craven Faults releases.
Robert Smith has become a prominent supporter, and invited Craven Faults to contribute to The Cure’s Mixes Of A Lost World album – an entirely instrumental interpretation of ‘I Can Never Say Goodbye’ was the result.
Craven Faults will be performing in Norwich, Liverpool and London this winter with full live projections.
Previous double LP Standers scored an impressive number 6 in the Official UK Independent Chart in May 2023 and Erratics & Unconformities landed at number 16 in January 2020.
Standers also featured prominently in retailer and media album of the year lists including Sister Ray (#2), Norman (#3), Jumbo (#5), Electronic Sound (#20), Bear Tree (#20), Crash (#28), Loud & Quiet (#29), Get Into This (#29), Uncut (#50) and the Drift top 100.
Sidings is the third full-length double LP by Craven Faults, following the 2020 debut Erratics & Unconformities and 2023’s Standers. These long-form releases have each been punctuated with shorter single disc albums – Enclosures at the end of 2020 and Bounds in 2024.
Each one builds on Craven Faults’ lore and takes a unique view of the north of England through the spectrum of slowly unfurling analogue electronic music. On the one hand it draws influence from the global underground of the arts and music, via seminal records, studios and concerts, and on the other it traces journeys through the post-industrial landscape outside the old mill Craven Faults calls home.
The journey on Sidings isn’t made with people in mind. It begins in an isolated community which built up around one of the great engineering projects of its age - 14 tunnels and 22 viaducts to open up the north - and finishes at an enclosed field on a moor in 1858. It takes in studios from Los Angeles to Rochdale from 1952 to 1980, while drawing inspiration from the progress in manmade infrastructure and the transport of goods.
The devil’s in the details. It always was and it always will be. It’s there for those who seek it out.
CD: 2LP:
1-1. A. Ganger (16:20)
1-2. B1. Stoneyman (14:25)
1-3. B2. Yard Loup (3:22)
1-4. C1. Three Loaning End (4:57)
1-5. C2. Up Goods Distant, Down Goods Home (4:31)
1-6. C3. Incline Huttes (6:01)
1-7. C4. Drover Hole Sike (3:40)
1-8. D. Far Closes (15:40)
2-1. Long Stoop (4:05) (from Bounds)
2-2. Groups Hollows (9:04) (from Bounds)
2-3. Lampes Mosse (5:42) (from Bounds)
2-4. Waste & Desmesne (18:11) (from Bounds)
3-1. May Birching (74:40)
4-1. Introduction (4:14) (from Thwaite Watermill)
4-2. Odda Delf (14:42) (from Thwaite Watermill)
4-3. Deipkier (9:14) (from Thwaite Watermill)
4-4. May Birching (11:34) (from Thwaite Watermill)
4-5. Hurrocstanes (15:41) (from Thwaite Watermill)
To hear the tracks from discs 2 to 4 of the CD box set, please visit cravenfaults.bandcamp.com
Craven Faults live: Thu 20 Nov Arts Centre, Norwich - Sat 22 Nov ICA, London - matinée performance
- Sat 22 Nov ICA, London - evening performance - Fri 28 NovThe Capstone Theatre, Liverpool
on Bounds:
“Overlapping arpeggios, sly rhythmic shifts and evolving melodic builds refine Craven Fault’s gift for evoking natural warmth from banks of analogue tech” 4/5 Mojo
“Its corroded groans and rain smeared synth sweeps envisage a landscape of craggy hills and moors pockmarked by the remains of decaying industry” 7/10 Uncut
on Standers:
“The beauty of Standers is that it invites you to consider these lightning flashes of 20th-century transcendence on a much longer continuum, stretching back into the mists of time” 8/10 Uncut
“This is psychedelic synth head music, custom designed for zoning out” Brooklyn Vegan
“A hypnotic, idiosyncratic gem” 8/10 Loud & Quiet
“Standers - like the Yorkshire landscape itself - is both forbidding and beautiful in equal measure” Electronic Sound
on Enclosures:
“Rumours still abound about the identity of its creator, but who cares when the end results are as mesmeric and seductive as this?” 4/5 Mojo
“Three epics of electronic minimalism, imagining journeys across post-industrial Northern England” Resident Adviso