Craven Faults – Sidings

Craven Faults returns with Sidings, the third full-length album in an ongoing series of long-form analogue meditations on the north of England. Following Erratics & Unconformities and Standers, this double set expands the project’s intricate topography of landscape and machine, tracing the quiet persistence of time and human endeavour.

Each release from Craven Faults has added new layers to a distinctive mythology, channelling global currents in experimental music through a distinctly northern lens. Sidings continues that exploration — from the echoes of post-industrial architecture to the resonances of classic studios between Los Angeles and Rochdale, 1952 to 1980.

Its journey begins in an isolated community formed around a monumental feat of engineering — fourteen tunnels and twenty-two viaducts carved to open up the north — and ends in a single enclosed field on the moor in 1858. A record about routes and residues, Sidings finds meaning in infrastructure, in repetition, and in the hidden detail that rewards patient listening.