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Sidings

by Craven Faults
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  • Streaming + Download

    Pre-order of Sidings. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    releases January 23, 2026

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Single CD in oversized 6-panel card wallet.

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    Includes digital pre-order of Sidings. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    digital album releases January 23, 2026
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Four CD clamshell box containing Sidings and newly remastered versions of Bounds, May Birching and Thwaite Watermill, along with two booklets. Edition of 1,000.

    Please note that the download available with this format does not include the additional tracks from discs 2-4. Contact us for downloads if required.

    Bandcamp will add local taxes where applicable.

    Includes digital pre-order of Sidings. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Download available in 24-bit/48kHz.
    shipping out on or around January 23, 2026
    edition of 1000 
    Purchasable with gift card

      £20.99 GBP or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Double black vinyl pressed by The Vinyl Factory in gatefold sleeve with custom obi printed on Fedrigoni Materica paper.

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    Includes digital pre-order of Sidings. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Download available in 24-bit/48kHz.
    shipping out on or around January 23, 2026
    Purchasable with gift card

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Edition of 400 on transparent 'Wulfenite Orange' vinyl pressed by The Vinyl Factory. With custom obi printed on Fedrigona Materica paper and 12-page photobook. Exclusive to Bandcamp.

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    Includes digital pre-order of Sidings. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Download available in 24-bit/48kHz.
    shipping out on or around January 23, 2026
    edition of 400  71 remaining
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      £24.99 GBP or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    'Wulfenite Orange' vinyl 2LP pressed by The Vinyl Factory, with custom obi printed on Fedrigoni Materica paper and 12-page photobook. Also includes heritage brown T-shirt with black Sidings track schematic print and Craven Faults enamel pin badge (50mm length). Exclusive to Bandcamp.

    Bandcamp will add local sales taxes where applicable.

    Please note, we cannot currently ship T-shirts to the USA and all US orders will be cancelled and refunded.

    Includes digital pre-order of Sidings. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Download available in 24-bit/48kHz.
    shipping out on or around January 23, 2026
    Purchasable with gift card

      £49.99 GBP or more 

     

  • Shirt

    PARCEL 850

    Track schematic diagram used as part of the artwork for Sidings. Black print on heritage brown Stanley/Stella Creator 2.0 shirts in 100% Organic cotton. Fair Wear accredited and climate neutral. More info and sizing: stanleystella.com/en-gb/creator-2-0-sttu169#color=1264

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    Please note, we cannot currently ship T-shirts to the USA and all US orders will be cancelled and refunded.
    shipping out on or around January 23, 2026
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  • Button/Pin/Patch

    Hard enamel badge. Black enamel inset in copper metal badge. 50mm length.

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  • Book/Magazine

    12" square photobook containing photos by Craven Faults. This item is included with coloured vinyl copies of the album. Available while stocks last.

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    shipping out on or around January 23, 2026
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1.
Ganger
2.
Stoneyman
3.
Yard Loup
4.
Three Loaning End
5.
Up Goods Distant, Down Goods Home
6.
Incline Huttes
7.
Drover Hole Sike
8.

about

The devil’s in the details. It always was and it always will be. It’s there for those who seek it out.

The journey on Sidings isn’t made with people in mind. It begins in an isolated community which has built up around one of the great engineering projects of its age. The work is slow and perilous - thousands of men at the mercy of the elements. The ground is frozen or flooded for months on end, while red kites circle overhead. 14 tunnels and 22 viaducts to open up the north. The on-beat and the off-beat interchange. Recorded in 1969, Olympic Studios - a precursor to the ships we built.

We walk north east in search of a distance marker. When it first comes into view, it looks similar to where we commenced our journey on Bounds. The open moorland gives it away. This particular trip will take considerably longer, by foot and packhorse, before the land and power is redistributed by order of parliament. Just shy of fifteen minutes between 1952 and 1964 – from J&M Studio, New Orleans to the San Francisco Tape Music Centre. Rapid progress and consistently fertile ground.

As the sun rises, we make our way by road to a junction. There is a livestock market and an inn for travellers. It’s important to make the journey before the seasons change and this area becomes inaccessible. An idea almost lost in the mists of time - a West German prototype unearthed twelve years later. A little way due south, we arrive at another crossroads. We find a maestro labouring over his masterwork – Gold Star Studios, United Western Recorders, Columbia Studios and Capitol Studios. October 3rd, 1966 to November 20th, 1968. Inspired by the story of another community building the railways. The circle is complete and encompasses continents.

We continue south, hitching a ride on a finely turned out cart. We help to unload the churns onto the platform and wait for the train to arrive. Our cargo will head east before switching tracks to be delivered into urban areas. Hundreds of thousands of gallons per year. The Black Ark, 1977.

From there we head north and west a little way, and find ourselves near to where we began. Another temporary settlement built up along the line, where each chord occupies its own space. Wally Heider in 1967 and finished off at home a year later. Spikes driven into the frozen ground and the Kirkstall Forge hammer in the dead of night. Finding order in the chaos.

We strike a deal with the local farm and walk a thousand heads of cattle to market. The ground is heavy and it’s slow going - it will take the best part of a week. We stop to graze at Suma Recording Studio, 1978 and then Sunwest, 1969. We reach the end of our journey via a final rest stop - an enclosed field on the moor we hovered over on Standers. 1858. An outgrown coda and proof that two chords will suffice. Three is a luxury. A radio enthusiast intercepts government secrets - Cargo Studios, 1980.

credits

releases January 23, 2026

written & produced by Craven Faults

mastered by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering Berlin

artwork by Oli Bentley, Split
photography by Craven Faults

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