Here’s what I’m listening to lately. Anything by Craven Faults, my favorite discovery of the past year or so. If you love electronic grooves and deep-level listening, Craven Faults is for you. Born out of the haunted back lanes and side roads of the bleak English Yorkshire countryside, with its desolate post-industrial beauty, waste, and demesne, it’s music that’s reminiscent of America’s bleak industrial past, populated now only by haunted institutional buildings and past human adventures. It’s highly recommended. The next time your friends come over for snacks, they’ll be amazed by the incredible sounds emitting from your home hi-fi, straight into their unsuspecting brains!
Other music on my radar includes anything from The Ambient Drones of Bill Baxter. Stirring stuff, and great for your next dance party—as long as they’re well-behaved and sedated first. If not, Bill Baxter will make sure they are, with his deep pulsating delta and theta waves and moving sonic architecture. As for gems from the past, I put “Love letters” by Ketty Lester at the top of my list, followed by Aretha Franklin’s “Young, Gifted and Black”—a masterpiece of a record. Hope this brightens up your lively.
Malcolm Burn is a Grammy Award-winning music producer who has worked with Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, the Neville Brothers, Patti Smith, Chris Whitley, Emmylou Harris, and others. He lives in Kingston, where he hosts “Live Overnight with Malcolm Burn” on Radio Kingston weekdays from 2 to 6am.
This article appears in June 2026.
