Q&A

Craven Faults on the future sounds of Yorkshire

The first three Craven Faults releases appear plotted as a trilogy of sorts. Did you change your approach with this album?

Although inspiration is continuous and diverse, and I try to vary methodology to avoid routine, there was no great change in how I approached the individual tracks. The only difference is I wanted the album to have a flow and work as a whole. This influenced the choice of tracks but not how they were constructed.

How long has this release been in the works? I understand some pieces have been re-worked and reedited over time...

It was mostly recorded over the past couple of years. “Slack Sley & Temple” is from early 2016 but the organ drones are taken from a recording I’d made a fewyears earlier. Some tracks – like “Vacca Wall” – were worked on comprehensively, with different arrangements and sounds, later discarded. “Deipkier” I’d forgotten about until I listened through some archived tracks and rediscovered it.

There is a lack of biographical information around the Craven Faults project - is it important to you that it remains anonymous?

Not that important. It was to allow the music to seep out and leave a body of work to be discovered by the time the album appeared. On the downside I haven’t been able to go on social media and say, “Hey everyone, I’ve made a new record.” On the plus side it means I don’t have to go on social media and say, “Hey everyone, I’ve made a new record.”