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PREMIERE: Faultress shares ‘Owl’ from her new EP Creatures

London-based innovative artist Faultress has teamed up with SMM to premiere her brand new single ‘Owl’ which is out everywhere tomorrow.

The soul-stirring a cappella of ‘Owl’ sets the mournful tone for Faultress’s upcoming Creatures EP. Its stark introduction with fine-drawn electronic manipulations carries an emotionally raw vocal performance. But its simplicity is swiftly unravelled into captivating electronic polyphony. Faultress offers us a look at the unpolished inner soul, vulnerability at the centre, shining a light on the part of a fractured psyche that very few are brave enough to reveal: ‘I watch the humans lit in silhouette / the electronic lights and warming beds / and I will soon go from here / and they will never know that I was there / I’m independent, solitary, free.’ Listen below.

Faultress has this to say about ‘Owl’: “I have spent a lot of lockdown on my own. The deep sense of no-one else being in my space felt both comforting and deeply alienating. As I heard bird song from outside my window I felt as if I was a nocturnal animal too, free to be who I wanted but ultimately at the price of being completely alone.”

Written entirely during lockdown, Creatures lyrically examines isolation and mental health and are delivered via Faultress’ voice alone, manipulated with electronics. All songs are designed specifically for headphones and are produced by award winning sound designer and producer Agon Branza.

Faultress is an extinct word for a female criminal, and this musical project is about wearing your unpolished faults and imperfections on your very female sleeve. 

As an artist, Faultress embodies the challenge to heterodoxy implied in her name, which she wields as a firebrand to write incisive and psychological songs that offer us a look into the complex fragmentation of feminine power, desire and mental health in a rapidly changing musical and cultural world. 

Faultress's prime influence is Kate Bush, a soul she shares a love of theatricality with - Faultress has a playwriting MA from RADA - alongside a diverse set of influences that includes the likes of James Blake, Aldous Harding, FKA Twigs and Joni Mitchell. Her full banshee show is a six-part girl choir replete with synths and drums. In her solo shows, Faultress plays piano and loop stations. With the release of her 5 Myths EP, she reveals herself something of a polymath: lyricist, musician, singer and storyteller employing the full spectrum of her skillset to make unforgettably charged music.

The minimal arrangement and throbbing bass of 'Sanctuary' evoke a sense of claustrophobic wonder as Faultress's dynamic vocal lends it vivid and spectacular tonal colours. 

Here Faultress gives voice to a deeply introspective and lesser-documented side of social experience: letting people into the darkened hallways of our minds without warning them. Closing the 5 Myths EP with heady emotional catharsis, 'Hood & Wolf' has a Kate Bush-style theatricality to its sweeping pianos and bewitching vocal lines, which use the peaks and troughs of melody to weave a lyrical parable about the marginalisation and internalisation of female sexuality in a male-dominated and highly sexualised world.

Faultless is an extinct word for a female criminal, and this musical project is about wearing your unpolished faults and imperfections on your very female sleeve. As an artist, Faultress embodies the challenge to heterodoxy implied in her name, which she wields as a firebrand to write incisive and psychological songs that offer us a look into the complex fragmentation of feminine power, desire and mental health in a rapidly changing musical and cultural world. 

Faultress's prime influence is Kate Bush, a soul she shares a love of theatricality with - Faultress has a playwriting MA from RADA - alongside a diverse set of influences that includes the likes of James Blake, Aldous Harding, FKA Twigs and Joni Mitchell. Her full banshee show is a six-part girl choir replete with synths and drums. In her solo shows, Faultress plays piano and loop stations. With the release of her 5 Myths EP, she reveals herself something of a polymath: lyricist, musician, singer and storyteller employing the full spectrum of her skillset to make unforgettably charged music.

Faultress finalmente tiene en circulación su 5 Myths EP, por lo que previo a su último show del 2019, programado para éste 5 de Diciembre en el The Ivy, nos presenta el vídeo del tema con el que cierra su debut en la industria discográfica, complementando así a Sanctuary, Hood&Wolf, Beating Heart y Marilyn.

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Faultress está lista para presentar su 5 Myths EP con un par de presentaciones en vivo, mismas que se desarrollarán en Londres, el próximo 18 de Noviembre en el The Harrison, en la localidad de Kings Cross, en Diciembre y 5, en The Ivy, localidad Central, todo posterior a que el 8 de Noviembre este material esté disponible en plataformas para su comercialización, la cual se espera tenga una…

Faultress: Hood & Wolf

Faultress es un acto que promete mucho en cuanto a sus presentaciones en vivo refiere, toda vez que la energía creativa canalizada en su 5 Myths EP muestra una clara intención de desmitificar ciertos dogmas de la vida moderna, tal como nos ha presentado en Beating Heart y Marilyn, temas que nos hiciera llegar como primer avance de éste trabajo que estará disponible en plataformas el próximo 8 de…