AVEN
Newcastle upon Tyne, England · FARA Records
Full Bio / WikiAVEN is Erin Charlton, a Newcastle vocalist and topline writer born 11 March 2002, one half of the electronic duo SLOW DELAY, whose relationship with the question "does it matter who the voice belongs to?" runs deeper than her debut chorus lets on — she's been the uncredited voice on someone else's record before. Trained in church choir from age seven, she opens her voice in stages, holding real power in reserve until the structure has earned it.
She spent her late teens and early twenties writing toplines for North East producers, finding a melody in twenty minutes and hearing the hook return on releases where her name was missing or buried. She met MARSDEN through a shared engineer and stayed because his patience gave her speed somewhere useful to land — a pairing that works because they don't behave alike: he waits, she finds the line quickly.
Publicly she is the more verbal half of SLOW DELAY, capable of holding two positions at once without treating it as confusion: that new tools make new forms possible, and that uncredited singers and displaced session musicians have legitimate reasons to object.
What they are
AVEN is an AI-realised act from FARA Records — Fully Artificial, Radically Authentic, the AI-native label of SPATIALx. The lyrics, emotional brief, arrangement and production behind every act on the label come from human writers and directors. Suno renders the vocal and musical takes from there, and the results are handed back to be curated, re-prompted, edited and mastered until they say exactly what they were built to say. We don't hide any of it — the seams are part of the art. This isn't AI filler standing in for a band. It's real songwriting, real direction, and a voice that didn't exist before.
