CRAVEN FAULTS - ERRATICS & UNCONFORMITIES [CD]

Format: CD
Cat: BAY120CD
Barcode: 843190012046
Release Date: 22 May 2026
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

On Erratics & Unconformities:

“Craven Faults have a few clear kin: think Pye Corner Audio and the synth-powered wing of the Ghost Box label, the tin-pot analogue constructions of the BBC Radiophonic Orchestra, or even past outer-limits explorers like Throbbing Gristle. If krautrock felt like a reaction to Germany’s totalitarian past, a new chapter defined by freaky optimism and a race to the margins, Craven Faults also feels like a historical reckoning of sorts: a cold elegy to Britain’s industrial heyday, its nostalgia not guided by entreaties to “Keep Calm And Carry On”, but by an angry nobility and a deep-seated sadness for what has passed” 8/10, Lead review, Uncut

“Glacial landscapes a go-go on mesmerising debut by Yorkshire producer” 4/5 Mojo

“Often feeling less like the work of human hands than sounds breathed out by the moors around their Yorkshire home, the drones have an almost geological weight and pace” 9/10, DJ Magazine

“70s-era Tangerine Dream, with perhaps a dash of Phillip Glass-style minimalism” 
Electronic Sound

“A record of hypnotic beauty, with soundscapes of both the rural and the urban North brought to life, thanks to a collection of addictive modular synth patterns” 
Record Collector

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.

- 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…

- 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 recently appeared at The Royal Albert Hall on a bill with Mogwai as part of this year’s Teenage Cancer Trust concerts curated by Robert Smith.

CD: 2LP:
1.  A1. Vacca Wall  (17:37)
2.  B1. Deipkier  (7:55)
3.  B2. Cupola Smelt Mill  (9:13)
4. C1.  Slack Sley & Temple  (18:24)
5.  D1. Hangingstones  (10:29)
6.  D2. Signal Post  (8:33)