’Tis the season for long-form analogue electronic journeys across decades and continents, and swathes of post-industrial northern Britain. So it’s just as well we bumped into Craven Faults out on the moors. We’re very pleased to welcome the elusive Yorkshire-based producer to The Leaf Label, for the release of debut album Erratics & Unconformities. It follows three EPs: Netherfield Works, Springhead Works and Nunroyd Works plus a remix EP on the Lowfold Works label.
Listen to new single ‘Deipkier’ now and watch the video here.
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.
Erratics & Unconformities will be released January 10th. Pre-order now on limited edition double transparent yellow vinyl LP, double black vinyl LP and limited edition 3CD box set which features all 10 tracks from the four Lowfold Works 12” EPs.
