Fauness has been played on NTS shows including The Gaza Strip, with L.A.C.E (leaking androgens can enter) first played on 10 February 2019.

Fauness is a singer-songwriter from London, UK. She describes the music as “fairy rock”, something that combines the ethereal sweetness of fairies with the forcefulness and hardness often associated with the rock genre. It’s an appropriate description for her subversive songs: “Sixteen” is a sugar-coated pill, its lush and nostalgic sound hiding lyrics that are quite the opposite. “I don’t wanna be 16 / When I was 16 I was so fragile and so lonely,” she sings.

“I’m fascinated by sweetness as an…