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LP-ZEN-243X

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-05-05

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5054429008104

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Forest Swords

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

Ninja Tune

Forest Swords is one producer, Matthew Barnes, from The Wirral/Liverpool, UK. He creates a unique blend of jagged hip-hop and R&amp;B beats, looping guitar lines and manipulated samples. His evocative and emotional music reflects the sprawling Wirral landscape of river, coastland and woodland with all the haunting melodies of nearby city Liverpool’s enviable pop history.His sound can be compared to artists such as Oneohtrix Point Never, Blanck Mass, Steve Hauschildt, and Andy Stott. Forest Swords' music captures a similar atmospheric quality found in the works of Tim Hecker, Actress, and Holy Other. Fans of experimental electronic music will also appreciate his compositions akin to those by Demdike Stare, Fuck Buttons, and Pye Corner Audio.Influenced by a range of genres including ambient, IDM, dubstep, and post-rock, Forest Swords' style resonates with fans who enjoy the soundscape creations of artists like Laurel Halo, Emptyset, and Nosaj Thing.If you appreciate intricate sound design combined with mesmerizing melodies reminiscent of artists

INDIE EXCLUSIVE DELUXE VERSION OF THE LP IS A GATEFOLD SLEEVE HOUSING AN ADDITIONAL 12 PANEL 12x12" ART BOOKLET. 

"Compassion", the follow-up to 2013's critically lauded debut "Engravings", will be released on 5th May 2017 via Ninja Tune. The album will be followed by a set of multidisciplinary projects expanding the themes and concepts across wider disciplines, overseen by Forest Swords' own Dense Truth, an experimental art studio and record label. "Compassion" is a response to the uncertain, aggressive new world we're experiencing and communicating within, distilling it into a unique sound territory: Barnes' exploration of the mid-point between ecstasy and melancholy, artificial and human feels timely and affecting; a celebration of primal connections, life itself, and an anxious glance at the direction we're heading. The result is an assured, compelling, vital body of work, tying together the ancient and future: weaving swathes of buzzing digital textures, field recordings, clattering beats and distorted jazz sax with fizzing orchestral arrangements. The album shifts from 'The Highest Flood's skeletal bounce to 'Panic's claustrophobic paranoia; the rapturous hyperballad 'Arms Out' to the windswept and cinematic 'Knife Edge', navigating through the orchestral glitch of 'War It' to decaying jazz thump of 'Raw Language'. The album is equal parts disorienting and immersive, balancing bold sweeping gestures and crumbling textures; tracks seemingly disintegrating and reassembling at points across the album. Blending both digital and specially recorded brass, strings and vocals, Barnes's processing never truly makes it clear what's new or old, sampled or unique, constantly blurring and toying with the line between digital and acoustic. The 'mixed media' approach extends to the record's packaging and design, all directed by Barnes himself. The visuals intersect many of the album's themes: bodies, connection, language and movement - with the deluxe booklet featuring portraits of first-wave immigrants who travelled from Barnes' home port of Liverpool to New York. Central to this enthralling world is "Compassion", an album that's as weighty as it is vulnerable, sculpting the most striking parts of his previous work into something that feels urgent and necessary, and cementing Barnes as one of the UK's most significant electronic artists and composers.

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