Forest Swords

The project of producer/graphic developer Matthew Barnes, Forest Swords fashions hip-hop-inspired beats with atmospheric samples and evocative guitar work into dreamlike tracks that evoke the windy coastal terrain of his house in England’s Wirral Peninsula. As a teenager, Barnes produced four-track recordings, sketching inspiration not only from hip-hop and digital music, but also from punk and pop groupings such as for example Sugababes. He started issuing music as Forest Swords in ’09 2009, like the self-released EP Fjree Feather as well as the cassette singles Miarches and Glory Gongs. The next year saw the discharge from the Rattling Cage one as well as the Dagger Pathways EP, which received wide-spread important acclaim and made an appearance on many 2010 best-of lists. Although period seemed ripe for any Forest Swords full-length, Barnes’ exacting requirements and his tinnitus led him to function slowly on songs. During that period, he performed three specifically commissioned items for the Give up Normal Devices Event in 2011, co-wrote and created How to Gown Well’s 2012 solitary Chilly Nites, and continuing working like a visual developer. In June 2013, Forest Swords’ 1st songs in nearly 3 years arrived in the proper execution of “Thor’s Rock,” a far more streamlined-sounding monitor that heralded the discharge from the debut recording Engravings that August. More than the next couple of years, Barnes done scoring tasks. These included the music for 2014’s Assassin’s Creed: Rogue; 2015’s La Fête (Est Finie), a film about weather switch that also presented music by Massive Assault and Youthful Fathers; 2016’s In the Automatic robot Skies, a sci-fi film shot completely by drones; which year’s Shrine, a dance piece influenced by the body that premiered on Barnes’ Dense Truth label. For Forest Swords’ second recording, Compassion, Barnes took motivation from the politics tumult from the past due 2010s aswell as the developing speed and versatility of communication during this time period. Compassion found its way to 2017 on Dense Truth.