Miles Whittaker, the Manchester-based producer, DJ, and label owner has made music as part of Pendle Coven and the dark-dub duo Demdike Stare, participated as a shadowy member of the HATE project, released music with Andy Stott as Millie & Andrea, put out music under the monikers Suum Cuique and MLZ, but Faint Hearted is Miles first solo debut for his UK label Modern Love. A relentless experimenter and deep proponent of electronic music in it’s various forms, Wittaker’s work has explored interests in 90’s-era Jungle, Chicago House, obscure techno, synthwave, Italian concrčte, and contemporary noise, but Faint Hearted elegantly essentializes those interests using an all analogue set-up. The result is an intriguing listen that often foregrounds machine intelligence over human consciousness, slowly tweaking filtered, reverb drenched loops and bit- crunched beats, for 8 tracks of alien ambience.
