FOREST SWORDS UNVEILS ‘PANIC’ BEFORE COMPASSION RELEASE
“Like many, with all that’s been going on since I started making the record, I’ve struggled to see any kind of light at the end of the tunnel, so I realised there’s some sort of power in trying to create our own instead”. Matthew Barnes. Forest Swords has shared a new track, ‘Panic’ ahead of the […]
FOREST SWORDS RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE
Liverpool producer Forest Swords returned last week with a brand new single ‘The Highest Flood’. The track sees the man behind the moniker Matthew Barnes deliver his first dose of new music since the brilliant record ‘Engravings’ which hit our Top 10 albums of 2013. That also produced our No. 1 track of the same […]
THE ELEMENTAL WORLD OF FOREST SWORDS
Merseyside avant garde producer Matthew Barnes, aka Forest Swords, made quite a name for himself in independent music circles a few years back with the release of his debut EP, Dagger Paths. It received kudos from Pitchfork and FACT among others. Well, the last few years haven’t found Barnes as well and productive in a […]