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Find A Song that explores the role of the human bonding hormone oxytocin

Faultress - Beating Heart

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. 

'Beating Heart' explores the role of the human bonding hormone oxytocin in making us feel closer to each other than we really are. It resists easy-reach hooks, favouring sharp and stylised grooves in its vocal loops and synth bass. An ode to post-coital bliss, 'Beating Heart' is instrumentally as carnal and as naked as its subject matter. (press release)

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Getting to Know...

Faultress.

The seductive crawl of 'Marilyn' sets a fantastic pace for Faultress's 5 Myths EP. Its dark and minimal tone and stacked vocals underpin an emotionally dynamic vocal performance. But the nature of its seduction is quickly revealed to be a snare. Faultress offers us a different kind of femme fatale, one whose vulnerabilities are centre stage, deconstructing the masculine idea of femininity by showing it as an air-brushed performance for the male gaze.

'Beating Heart' explores the role of the human bonding hormone oxytocin in making us feel closer to each other than we really are. It resists easy-reach hooks, favouring sharp and stylised grooves in its vocal loops and synth bass. An ode to post-coital bliss, 'Beating Heart' is instrumentally as carnal and as naked as its subject matter.

We had a chat with Faultress all bout ‘Marilyn’ and ‘Beating Heart’, 5 Myths and more. Read the Q&A below.

What led you to make music? Who/what are your biggest influences?

“I’ve written songs since I was 7 - a teacher snatched a doodle out of my hand and when she realised I was writing a song handed it back.

“My biggest influences aren’t necessarily musical - the dance works of Pina Bausch, the theatre director Katie Mitchell, Sylvia Plath… and then of course Kate Bush, Bjork and darker, slower club music like Forest Swords, Burial and early James Blake. Bit of a weird mix I can appreciate!”

You've just released two tracks 'Marilyn' and 'Beating Heart'. What was the inspiration behind the tracks and also the visuals for 'Marilyn'?  

“For ‘Marilyn’, I was inspired by the fact that Marilyn Monroe could switch off her ‘Marilyn persona’ to such an extent that she could walk around LA on her own unnoticed…. It made me feel about all the times people have wanted me to perform or be a veneered version of myself, rather than my regular, basic bitch self sat in my pyjamas watching cartoons.  

“’Beating Heart’ is about wanting to be free and not wanting to be close to anyone you’re sleeping with - but good old Oxytocin always seems to get in the way…”  

'Marilyn' and 'Beating Heart' are taken from your new EP 5 Myths which is out in November. It's a project which explores mental health, power and desire through a female lens. Can you tell us more about what inspired you to make such a record? And what do you hope listeners will take away from it?

“I think I’ve been through a few different musical versions of my self over the years, I wrote folk tunes, pop tunes with a few big artists and then tried to right straight up electro… none of them felt real. I sat myself down one day and said ‘what is it you really want to say and how do you want to say it? No BS…’ and this is what came out. I’m really grateful for my producer Josh for helping me realise exactly what has been in my head. I can’t really predict how listeners will receive it, all I know is that I’ve tried to give the most honest version of myself to it and if that inspires anyone to be entirely themselves, then great.”

What was your songwriting process for 5 Myths?

“Hmmmm - I use my loop station to create lines that I sort of wail over until something comes out… hahaha.”

Finally, what else is next for Faultress?

“I’m really excited to say that I’ll be performing at Union Chapel on October 26 backed by the female singers of London Contemporary Voices - I’ll be supporting Eska and an incredible violinist called Anna Phoebe. I cannot bloody wait.  

“Also going to be doing my first headline show in the new year (date TBC) with my full banshee group of 6 women singing with me along with drums and synth!”

Photo credit: Ana Lemos

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Big thanks to @bbcintroducingsouthandwest with @jamesthrelfall & #producerrich for all the love and for featuring @thisisfaultress on last nights show! #bbcintroducing #bbcmusicintroducing #faultress #newmusic #earworm https://www.instagram.com/p/COFHEUNnxCe/?igshid=1t59epyk2pvc3

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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.

Links https://www.faultress.com https://www.facebook.com/faultress https://soundcloud.com/faultress https://twitter.com/thisisfaultress https://www.instagram.com/thisisfaultress

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Faultress: Icarus

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.

Icarus trata de éso que significa, en el ideario general, el perseguir “tus sueños”,…

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Addictions and Other Vices 646 - Days Like These!!!

Addictions and Other Vices 646 - Days Like These!!! BOMBSHELL RADIO Today 2pm-4pm EST bombshellradio.com Repeats Tuesday 8am-9am and Saturday 10am-11am EST #indie, #rock ,#alternative ,#Synthpop, #indierock, #community, #radio, #BombshellRadio, #DJ, #AddictionsPodcast, #NewMusic,#DaysLikeThese, #NowPlaying *Photography Dominik Vanyi (Unsplash) dominik-photography.com FIX MIX 646 Times / Declan Welsh and The Decadent West You're Either On Something / Temples Charmed / The Room in The Wood Good God Regina It's a Bomb / Mating Ritual Wandering Rat / Sofia Portanet Tokyo Smoke / Cage the Elephant Money Shot / Eat Lipstick Foghorn Town / The Growlers I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus / Beabadoobee Scrap Yard / Wavez Like A Fire / Honey Beard All Mirrors / Angel Olsen Icarus / Faultress Mess with My Head / Miranda Lambert Crystal Gayle - Somebody loves you Got To Be Me / Mike Petri - I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend / Ezra Furman Talent Show (Matt Wallace Mix) / The Replacements Class Actress / Watch Clark 10% / Gracie Martin & The So Beautifuls California / Honey Cane Mountains and Sea / Courteous Thief Dive / The Soft Cavalry Redcoats / Death Party Playground Good Luck / Broken Bells OnOurOwn / Kar Warm Up / Eleanor Ailie Don't Leave Me Behind / Jimmy Laine  18 Stories Down / parker Bombshell All This Music Must Fade / The Who Read the full article

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#PumpUpThaVolume: November 21, 2019

#MorningMonarchy MP3: #November21 w/@CalistaKazuko, @FranAndFlora, @CarlyParadis & more ♬

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Frank Sinatra – “Love’s been Good To Me” Calista Kazuko – “Benzo Belle” Faultress – “Icarus” E.L. Fields’ Gospel Wonders (w/Sharon Jones) – “Key To The Kingdom” Dan Rosenboom – “Nebulounge” Yardelm – “Haunted…

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RT @Only_rock_radio: #tiorrplaylist #tiorradio1 Artists added since next month: Faultress @Thisisfaultress Via @Lostinthemanor Flux Amuck @Fluxamuck Fragile Creatures @Fragilecreature Via @Kim_Waves Keith Shaw @Keithshawmusic Kristina Stykos @Kristi…

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Find A Song that reimagines Little Red Riding Hood as an allegory of taboo female sexuality

Faultress - Hood & Wolf

Closing the 5 Myths EP (to be released Nov. 8th) 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.  (press release)

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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 · Owl

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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.

Links https://www.faultress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/faultress https://soundcloud.com/faultress https://twitter.com/thisisfaultress https://www.instagram.com/thisisfaultress

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Faultress Sanctuary

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…

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Find A Song that evokes the obsession over a fading memory

Faultress - Sanctuary

On Wednesday 10th July, multi disciplinary musician, Rosi Croom, aka Faultress, released her follow up single, Sanctuary, from her forthcoming debut EP, 5 Myths.

Through deep, brooding rhythms and disorienting vocal layering - Sanctuary evokes the obsession over a fading memory. The EP is produced by emerging talent, Joshua Davenport (soundtrack Peaky Blinders and producer of PRS-supported aleksandr) and mixed by award winning Submotion Orchestra’s Dom Howard.

Sanctuary is presented as the second of 5 tracks on her debut alternative EP, 5 Myths. Under her new moniker Faultress, Croom will take you on a nocturnal journey from brooding, club-inspired beats to sparse yet cinematic synthscapes. Expect dark rhythms and intricate vocal layers met with visceral and honest songwriting.  (press release)

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Find A Song that evokes the internal cries of a person misunderstood

Faultress - Marilyn

Multi disciplinary musician, Rosi Croom, aka Faultress, has released her debut single, Marilyn, from her forthcoming debut EP, 5 Myths. Through deep, brooding rhythms and disorienting vocal layering - Marilyn evokes the internal cries of a person misunderstood. The video was filmed with a majority female crew (rare) and examining the ‘assembling of a good woman’ including subtle drag work. (press release)