Craven Faults - Bounds

Craven Faults - BoundsCraven Faults' 'Bounds' is the latest EP length project to be outputted by the otherwise elusive Northern English artist. Once again building on his admirable, psycho terrestrial approach in which the artist embarks on long, restless trans Anglican journeys as creative fuel for the alluvial fire 'Bounds' hears the otherwise anonymous Faults trace the fault lines of the Black Country's pastoral industrial contradiction, beginning said journey "less

Craven Faults' 'Bounds' is the latest EP-length project to be outputted by the otherwise elusive Northern English artist. Once again building on his admirable, psycho-terrestrial approach - in which the artist embarks on long, restless trans-Anglican journeys as creative fuel for the alluvial fire - 'Bounds' hears the otherwise anonymous Faults trace the fault lines of the Black Country's pastoral-industrial contradiction, beginning said journey "less than 20 miles North-West of the city", and with no further elaboration than that. Side A traipses through three heat-hazed, ground-dwelling, humid humuses - the vague scrapes of heavy metallic industry looming over each mix, straddling both back and foreground - and only 'Lampses Mosse' permits much respite from the trek, via a tremblingly, relievingly spread synth bell. 'Waste & Demesne' is the B-side's epitaph for England's feudal legacy, its drawn-out basses and quavering pedal notes congregating to mourn the natural losses resulting from centuries' worth of exploitation.