Tomb Land is the lo-fi folk recording project of Leeds-based songwriter Jacob Cracknell. Temporarily uprooted from his Green Gardens moorings, Cracknell’s solo offering reveals his folk sensibilities buried in found sound, homeward bird song and whispered conversation. Tomb Land refers to a street in Cracknell’s hometown, derived from the old English for ‘empty space’. The project's debut deals with emptiness in all its forms. Existing in the tomb land itself.

Tomb Land returns with Slope, a leap across the disorienting space between grief and renewal. Folk sensibilities buried in found sound, homeward bird song and whispered conversation, The EP acts as a gentle hand leading you through the immeasurable terrain of loss to the disarming joy of new life. A passage where mourning and tenderness hum side by side, and repetition and sonic weight lighten the load of transition. “Slope marks the slow transition between the presence of someone and the thing that will eventually replace them.” 

Moulded by the manipulation and augmentation of analogue recordings, Jacob Cracknell (aka Tomb Land) furrows a route through the distortion for the beauty of life’s new beginnings. Gentle melody and sweet harmony battles the whirs and whines of a broken tape machine throughout the fleeting EP. Now on his 2nd EP via Field Work Recordings, Cracknell navigates a portal between two extremes, akin to the spicing of the camera’s film on the cover.