Forest Swords - Bolted

Released20th October 2023

Forest Swords (aka electronic producer/composer Matthew Barnes) returns. Having spent 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 last twelve months in Barnes home city of Liverpool. His ad hoc studio in a former vehicle and munitions factory (with connections to shadowy guerrilla artists The KLF) became a gateway for him to explore, using a combination of hardware, software and tape machines to mould and sculpt a sound world for the album. Across its 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. While his previous album the acclaimed