Craven Faults - Sidings 2LP (’FREIGHT BAUXITE’ VINYL) (Vinyl LP) PRE-ORDER

Expected Release Date: 23-January-2026 - This Pre-order will be shipped on or just before this date. Release dates are subject to alteration.

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 will be released on black vinyl 2LP and INDIES ONLY ’Freight Bauxite’ vinyl limited to 1,000 copies for the world.

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 will be performing in Norwich, Liverpool and London this winter with full live projections.

Following a sold out London debut at 9294, two different sets will be presented across the matinée and evening shows at the prestigious ICA on November 22nd.

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: 2LP:
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)