Sleep Child

Single

28 May, 2021

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Faultress channels all the quirks and mystique of otherworldly art pop artists like Kate Bush, while also encapsulating a soulful avant-garde Bjork-esque splendour that commands your body to move to its bizarre rhythms.

— When the Horn Blows

Tracks

Sleep Child03:55

“What is she to you? Look at what she’s given up.”

The haunting and quietly cinematic introduction of Sleep Child continues to set the dream-like tone for Faultress’s debut album, Nocturnes. A song for single mothers, the track’s darkly ethereal swells and ostinato swirls envelope a deeply heartwrenching vocal that calls out in the name of personal sacrifice and loneliness. The increasingly lush strings merge and mix with distant industrial sound effects to create a beautiful yet terrifying thriller of a track, reaching its peak in a break into arpeggiated piano and choral drones.

Musically reminiscent of Kate Bush, Burial and James Blake but altogether unique, Faultress offers us a left field, feminine style of electronica, one in which the deepest of human vulnerability takes centre stage while filmic sound effects create an eerie and theatrical scenography around it.

The result is something greatly moving yet with uplifting, epic resolution.

Captivatingly unique

— Earmilk

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