HOME      EXCLUSIVES    FEATURES    MOVIES    REVIEWS    CONTESTS    TALK TO US    SUBSCRIBE  Look: Grim, British: straight out of the movie Snatch. Sound: Industrial, intense, soulful, melancholy, electronic. All About: Brought up in north London, David Kosten spent half the Nineties on the dole after dropping out of art college. “My real studies were sitting in front of a four-track recorder spending day after day learning why sounds worked together and discovering what I liked,” he recalls. The first result was debut album Closer, Colder, the critically acclaimed introduction to Faultline’s uniquely unsettling sound. One track featured death threats Kosten received from another singer. In fact, that could be the story of Kosten’s life. He had a “fantastic, surreal kind of filmic car crash” where the people who crashed into him turned out to be armed robbers escaping from a job in which they’d just shot someone! Given experiences like this, it’s not surprising there is darkness in his music, although Kosten denies the link. “These things just seem to follow me around,” he smiles. For his last album, Kosten wanted to be working with songs and singers but didn't know how to find the people he wanted to work with. So he ended up using Dennis Hopper samples, porn chatlines and death threats. But Kosten doesn’t think it’s unusual at all. He said in an interview, “This is what I do. I live a fairly normal life and I sit here (in the studio) until God knows when waiting for inspiration to strike and then I go home. There's nothing very fancy about it.” Some would disagree. Top Track: Your Love Means Everything Album: Your Love Means Everything nearly became one of the many great lost albums. Released nearly two years ago for the first time to rave reviews, the album got caught up in label politics and disappeared from view. Now, much has changed. Faultline have a new label. Two of the guests on Your Love Means Everything have become international megastars. Coldplay’s Chris Martin hadn’t even begun recording A Rush Of Blood To The Head when he sang on two Faultline tracks. Similarly, The Flaming Lips were still a cult act when they collaborated on the album. REM’s Michael Stipe is the third big name on the record. You can read the complete special feature in the June 2004 issue of The Record Music Magazine available at your local newsagent. ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: The Record has been around since 1998. Do you have every issue of your favourite magazine? to order back issues Would you like to have your favourite music magazine delivered directly to your doorstep? Website: Thrillpill Design © THE RECORD MUSIC MAGAZINE. All Rights Reserved.