Craven Faults Enclosures

The Leaf Label

£14.38

Format: Limited edition black vinyl mini-album (300 copies)
Catalogue No.: DOCK 73
UPC: 843190057368
Release Date: 27th November 2020
Genre: Analogue electronic

Mini-album:
X1. Doubler Stones (10.20)
X2. Hard Level Force (8.42)
O. Weets Gate (17.16)

Enclosures follows Craven Faults’ debut album Erratics & Unconformities. These 37 minutes of music are the start of the next journey. New terrain and more refined methods of travel. Dark clouds gathering.

On Erratics & Unconformities, Craven Faults often found a calm inner space in the vistas. Here the tensions of the early EPs return, with a focus on how human ‘progress’ has impacted and shaped the landscape. How the
land was divided now shapes our present and future, and retracing that journey is particularly pertinent.

We’re out of the blocks quickly. German engineering carries us swiftly across the moors on a Saturday night rendezvous. Two almost identical mushroom shaped rocks are the destination. There’s evidence of previous rituals carried out. Two hours due north we go in search of the power source. Cascading. An experiment in performance over a fixed point. Tape loops recorded in 1967 at The Philadelphia College of Art. Woodwind purchased from a charity shop in Yeadon. The concept of work was forgotten. We’re back on the millstone grit of the Mid Craven Fault for an exercise in simplification. Familiar territory. Sometimes the theory isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and there’s still power in hammering a single note over two chords – a lesson learnt from the American South in the late 40s and early 50s and boiled down in the late 60s. Olympic Sound Studios, April 1967. The Hit Factory, April 1969.

on Craven Faults:

“Compelling modular synth transmissions from post-industrial Yorkshire, tracing the lineage from field to
factory to warehouse rave”
Uncut

“Glacial landscapes a go-go on mesmerising debut by Yorkshire producer”
4/5 Mojo

“Born and nurtured somewhere within the pioneering world of synth visionaries Stockhausen, RadiophonicWorkshop, John Carpenter and The San Francisco Music Centre, this is music of pure quality”
10/10 DJ

“Immersive works that have been assembled by a painstaking master of his craft”
9/10 Long Live Vinyl

“Sprawling English kosmische”
Boiler Room

“Craven Faults build a spacious world in which to lose yourself”
The Vinyl Factory

“Regardless of who’s behind it all, if they carry on making music like this we’re happy to never find out who they really are”
Electronic Sound

“Hypnotic and engrossing”
NPR