Tune in on Wednesday, September 4th at 1pm to hear Sex 14s speak with Liverpool based electronic producer/composer, Mathew Barnes (aka Forest Swords).
Having spent the past few years working as an in-demand composer and sound designer – writing music for ballet, film and video games – latest full length album, Bolted was recorded over the past year in a warehouse factory space in 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 euphoria, monochrome and colour, past and future all feel ambiguous. Emotions shift from moment to moment, differences between digital and acoustic instruments more smeared than ever: a queering of time, space and sonics that feels equally playful and totally vital.
Defiant, desolate, and darkly beautiful: Bolted cements Forest Swords as one of the most remarkable and singular voices working in electronic music.
