Craven Faults specialise in long tracks, music inspired by lengthy excursions in post- industrial landscapes in northern England made with analogue synths and modular synths. It's a sound they describe as 'Detroit via The Orbit in Morley, 1992. Istanbul, 1967. We travelled by rail with old friends. Vienna, late night café, straight connection. Lower Manhattan, 1966. New Year’s Day in Filey, making mental note of the patterns played out by the church bells. 1991. Revisited several times over. Mutated by the passage of time.'
The EP Nunroyd Works has sold out on vinyl but you can get it digitally at Bandcamp. The first track is Engine Fields, clocking in at a relatively concise seven minutes. The second is the ten minutes trip of Dye And Size. The third, below, is the monumental seventeen and a half minutes of Foddergang, a relentless, intense kosmische synth journey, with rippling arpeggios and a thunderous kick drum.
This EP is great. Another music far away from everything else that was released these days. Unique and beautiful. Once again you were faster than me and this is no problem. My selection will appear tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteYou got ahead of me with the Shelter Me album Walter, lined up for later this week here.
ReplyDeleteLove this lot - consistently fabulous kosmische excursions, with a thrilling sense of place and time - particularly in the excellent notes that describe each journey they're soundtracking
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