Now signed to The Leaf Label following three highly regarded EP releases on the Lowfold Works label, Craven Faults’ debut album was released January 10 2020. The album hit the heights of number 16 in the Official UK Independent Chart, and number 2 in the Indie Breakers Chart. Full page lead album review in Uncut heads up an impressive list of reviews. Carefully constructed since day one, Craven Faults’ world draws on the the rural, industrial and geological heritage of the north of England. The identity of the producer behind Craven Faults is a closely guarded secret, though clues litter the landscape if you know where to look… Watch the videos for ‘Deipkier’ and ‘Vacca Wall’. Support from Kieran Hebden, Mary Anne Hobbs, Demdike Stare, Dan Snaith, Graham Massey, James Holden, Gold Panda, Bill Kouligas, Luke Abbott, Not Waving, Alessandro Cortini, Steve Davis, Stuart Maconie, Resident Advisor, NTS, NPR and Beats In Space. The limited edition coloured vinyl EPs on Lowfold Works have now sold out, with black vinyl editions currently still in print. The album came hot on the heels of the Lowfold Reworks EP featuring remixes by Pye Corner Audio, Don’t DJ and President Bongo. Erratics & Unconformities is the first album by Craven Faults. It follows three EPs: Netherfield Works, Springhead Works and Nunroyd Works. Long-form analogue electronic journeys across decades and continents, and swathes of post-industrial northern Britain. The journey on Erratics & Unconformities picks up where Netherfield Works left off. We take the canal towpath out of the city. We fork north shortly afterwards. Is this where it started? The terrain gradually becomes more rugged. Familiar. Wild. Evidence of human activity is less immediate in this glacial landscape. It’s there if you seek it. But easy to ignore. If you listen carefully, you can still hear the weight of the ice-sheet carving its way through the rock. Everything in its own time. The output from the old textile mill Craven Faults calls home is no longer as linear as it once was. There was no clear start point for the project, rather simply rediscovering the joy in experimentation with no material goals. Some of the recordings that make up Erratics & Unconformities go back almost seven years. Tracks have come and gone in that time. They don’t leave until they’ve undertaken a stringent quality control process. It started slowly, but has picked up momentum in the last eighteen months. Recorded and re-recorded to the correct level of imperfection, and then left to breathe. Mixed and re-mixed. Carefully compiled when the time was right. The journey is just as important as the destination.