Forest Swords (aka electronic producer/composer Matthew Barnes) returns. Having spent the past few years working as an in-demand composer and sound designer – writing music for ballet, film and video games – third studio album 'Bolted' was recorded over the past year in Barnes’ home city of Liverpool. His ad hoc studio in a former vehicle and munitions factory (with connections to shadowy guerilla artists The KLF) became a gateway for him to explore, using a combination of hardware, software and tape machines to mould and sculpt a sound world for the album. Across its 11 tracks he dives deeper into his unique sonic vocabulary (including personal samples of Neneh Cherry and the late Lee Scratch Perry) to weave together a set of tracks that sounds equally muscular and bleak, haunting and euphoric. While his previous album – the acclaimed 'Compassion' released in 2017 – saw Barnes toy with widescreen technicolour, the world of ‘Bolted’ is tightly wound, taught, with a sense of aching urgency like never before.
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Forest Swords plays idm. Forest Swords (aka electronic producer/composer Matthew Barnes) returns.
Forest Swords's live sets are tight and well-rehearsed - mid-paced sets where the arrangements come through clearly.
Forest Swords plays Elbphilharmonie Hamburg in Hamburg on Friday 6 November. There are 3 Forest Swords shows currently listed on Mood.
