CRAVEN FAULTS - Sidings [SECOND EDITION 4CD BOX SET]

Format: 4 x CD
Catalogue No.: BAY143CDXB 
Barcode: 843190014309
Release Date: 22 May 2026
Genre: Analogue Electronic

Second edition Sidings 4CD box set due to popular demand, to be released on May 22nd. Limited to 500 copies in new colourway clamshell box - includes photo booklet. INDIES ONLY.

“Haunted and otherworldly... [Sidings] has a sneaky way of rubberbanding your perception of time; some listens feel like a lightning bolt, others like an entire day.” Pitchfork

“Across three albums proper and a flurry of in-between EPs, the mysterious man behind this whole affecting caper has produced modular magic steeped in the blissful serenity of the willingly alone.”
Electronic Sound LEAD REVIEW

“Sidings is Craven Faults’ best, most irresistible work to date” The Quietus

“Another emotive instalment in their aural biography of post-industrial northern England" Mojo

“A love letter to the timbres and patterns of analogue synthesisers, and a paean to the post-industrial north” Uncut

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 was released on black vinyl 2LP and INDIES ONLY ’Freight Bauxite’ 2LP limited to 1,000 copies for the world. ‘Freight Bauxite’ edition is NON-RETURNABLE.

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 includes a 12-page photobook.

As well as the single CD version, the album was also presented as a four CD box set in an edition of 1,000 (INDIES ONLY+ NON-RETURNABLE), 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. Now reissued as a second edition of 500 in a new colourway clamshell box.

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.

Even without the delayed 4CD box set, the album performed well in the UK charts (#2 Official Independent Album Breakers Chart, #4 Official Album Downloads Chart, #9 Official Independent Albums Chart, #15 Official Albums Sales Chart, #24 Official Vinyl Albums Chart, #24 Official Record Store Chart, #39 Official Physical Albums Chart).

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:
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)