Forest Swords - Bolted [Ltd Ed Light Indigo Blue Vinyl/ 12-Page Artwork Booklet/ Printed Insert & Inner Sleeve]

Forest Swords unveils his new album, Bolted.

Spending the past few years working as an in-demand composer and sound designer – writing music for ballet, film and video games – Bolted was recorded over the past year in a warehouse factory space in Matthew Barnes’ home city of Liverpool. Across its 11 tracks he dives deeper into his unique sonic vocabulary to weave together a set of tracks that sounds equally muscular and bleak, haunting and euphoric.

As ever in his music, melancholy and joy, monochrome and colour, past and future all feel ambiguous. Emotions shift from moment to moment, the differences between digital and acoustic instruments more smeared than ever: a queering of time, space and sonics that feels both playful and totally vital. 

"Both sincere and sublime” 
- Resident Advisor (★★★★★)

“A stunning vision, hypnotic” - DJ Mag (★★★★)

"The goosebumps will cover most of your body"
- Exclaim! (8/10)

“The perfect soundtrack to the precarious times we live in” - PopMatters (8/10)

A1        Munitions
A2        Butterfly Effect
A3        Rubble
A4        Night Sculpture
A5        Caged
A6        Tar

B1        The Low
B2        Chain Link
B3        Hjope
B4        End
B5        Line Gone Gold