Music Career
In 2005 he made a sound for the game 'TrackMania Sunrise' called Take Back.
Faulkner made appearances in 2006 on BBC Radio 2 and he secured a Publishing deal with Peermusic UK who asked the Independent on Sunday to tell its readers to "watch this face". Faulkner performed at the 2006 South by Southwest music festival and at Guilfest 2007.
He subsequently signed with Sony BMG records and in July 2007 he released his début album Hand Built By Robots. He supported James Morrison on his February UK tour, Paolo Nutini on his UK tour in April, and John Mayer on his September dates in the UK. He also supported The John Butler Trio on a number of European dates.
In 2007 Faulkner debut studio album Hand Built by Robots was certified double platinum in the United Kingdom. Hand Built By Robots made No.1 in the UK Album Chart in August 2007. He released three singles from the album, "Dream Catch Me", "I Need Something" and "Teardrop". "Dream Catch Me" was selected Jo Whiley's Pet Sound on her daily Radio 1 show and made No.7 on the UK Singles Charts. This gave the track exposure and was highly commented on by listeners to Jo's show by SMS and e-mail. On 29 July, "Dream Catch Me" reached No. 7 in the UK Singles Chart. His fourth single from the album, a cover of Massive Attack's "Teardrop", was released in December 2007. A new video for "I Need Something" was released in March along with a United States version of the video for "Dream Catch Me".
Faulkner released his second studio album, Rebuilt by Humans in 2009 which made No.3 UK Albums Chart. On a video blog streamed live from Newton Faulkner's website on 22 June 2009, he stated that the new album would be called Rebuilt By Humans. The reason for this was that in December 2008, Faulkner slipped on some ice and badly injured his wrist, into which doctors fitted a metal plate. He then said that effectively, he had "been put back together again by humans". The first single from the album was "If this Is It", with the video exclusively shown on Channel 4 and released in September 2009. "Dream Catch Me" was a featured song in the US film, She's Out of My League in 2010.
An EP named Sketches was released on 17 April 2012 containing three new tracks, this EP was taken off iTunes on 21 April 2012, and was updated and re-released on 21 May 2012. In 2012 he got featured on the popular YouTube music channel 'NoteWorthySounds' which has been receiving great interest since. In June 2012 "Clouds" the first single from his third studio album received BBC Radio 1 airplay. Faulkner's third studio album Write It On Your Skin was released 9 July 2012 and made No.1 UK Albums Chart.
In the Autumn of 2012, Newton and brother Toby co-wrote several tracks with Janet Devlin for her upcoming debut album.
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