The ever mysterious Craven Faults announced his return last night, via the video for fifteen minute single ‘Far Closes’. It is the first track to be taken from new album Sidings, which will make landfall on January 23rd.
Sidings will be available to pre-order from 4pm GMT today (November 5th). You’ll find details of all the formats below.
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.
Here comes the science bit:
All vinyl editions are pressed at The Vinyl Factory, packaged in a gatefold sleeve with format specific obi strip printed on Fedrigoni Materica paper
Indies only ‘Freight Bauxite’ vinyl 2LP w/12-page photobook – Edition of 1000
Bandcamp exclusive ‘Wulfenite Orange’ vinyl 2LP w/12-page photobook – Edition of 400
Norman Records UK exclusive ‘Gypsum Works White’ vinyl 2LP in terracotta obi w/12-page photobook + exclusive initialled and numbered postcard – Edition of 300
HHV Records EU exclusive ‘Gypsum Works White’ vinyl 2LP in green obi w/12-page photobook + exclusive initialled and numbered postcard – Edition of 50
Zia Records US exclusive ‘Gypsum Works White’ vinyl 2LP in ‘Union Pacific’ yellow obi w/12-page photobook + exclusive initialled and numbered postcard – Edition of 50
Single CD edition In oversized 6-panel wallet
Four CD box set Includes Sidings plus newly remastered versions of Bounds (2024), ‘May Birching’ (2023) and the Thwaite Watermill live album (2024) + two booklets – Edition of 1000
You’ll also find a fetching track schematic T-shirt design and railway appropriate enamel badge available individually or as part of Bandcamp deluxe bundle.
Keep yours eyes peeled and compasses sharpened for some exciting Craven Faults developments over the coming months, and get your tickets for the upcoming shows in Norwich, London and Liverpool.
