On 24 April 2023, Cranes was a guest on Temporal Cove w/ Smilegoth. Cranes has been played over 50 times on NTS, first on 21 July 2017. Cranes's music has been featured on 56 episodes.

Cranes are a shoegaze/dream pop group fronted by Alison Shaw and formed in 1986. They were originally based on the south coast of England in Portsmouth.

The band released their first album on vinyl, Self Non Self in July 1989. The intensity of that album garnered very good reviews and caught the attention of John Peel, who picked up on the album right away, with the group recording a…