Craven Faults return with their second full-length album, Standers.

It will be available to pre-order from 10am (GMT) tomorrow.

There’s a sonic shift – a new palette to paint from and further refinement of the craft. We’re no longer exclusively travelling overland. Familiar landscapes are viewed from a different perspective. There’s a growing obsession in how this island came to look the way it does, and how its ancient and modern history affects its current population. Landscapes shaped by the elements, and then by countless conquerors and settlers. Livestock and machinery. Money, religion and politics.

‘Odda Delf’ is the first track to be taken from Standers – 10 minutes of slowly unfolding analogue electronics hewn from the finest Yorkstone, with Cumbrian limestone detailing. The very best materials and workmanship. It’s accompanied by an atmospheric video by Ross Downes and Neil Cain shot on the foggy moors. Naturally.

Initial vinyl copies of Standers will include a 20-page photobook and gatefold sleeve. The album will be released on double black vinyl, an edition of 1,000 on Dark Fell green vinyl (available through independent shops), and an edition of 500 on Black Smoke vinyl available exclusively from Norman Records and Bandcamp. The album will also be released as a three CD box set in an edition of 1,000 (exclusive to Bandcamp and indie shops), including all tracks from Enclosures and Live Works, and as a single CD in 6-panel card wallet.

Standers will be released digitally, and physically in the UK and Europe, on May 12th. The physical release for the rest of the world is June 30th.

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