Product Overview
Forest Swords - Bolted (Translucent algae green 140g vinyl in a matte varnish sleeve with printed inner sleeve. Also includes 12” double-sided art print and download code. Art direction and design by Forest Swords. Vinyl)
Forest Swords (aka electronic producer, Matthew Barnes) spent the past few years working as an in-demand composer; writing music for ballet, film and video games.
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 hardware, software and tape machines to sculpt a sound world for this new album, ‘Bolted’.
Across ‘Bolted’’s 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.
Reviews & features in Pitchfork, The FADER, DJ Mag, Stereogum, Resident Advisor, Clash, The Line of Best Fit, The Quietus, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Time Out, Billboard, i-D, Dazed, FACT, DIY, Mixmag, NME, The Wire and Q.
TRACKLIST
1. Munitions
2. Butterfly
3. Effect Rubble
4. Night Sculpture
5. Caged
6. Tar
7. The Low
8. Chain Link
9. Hjope
10. End
11. Line Gone Cold
