Forest Swords - Bolted

Forest Swords - BoltedForest Swords (aka electronic producer composer Matthew Barnes) returns with a new album Bolted. 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 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

Written specifically for Double

it's got issues of race and so what

This is something much more special than the average collaboration

even if cloaked in very different sonic sheaths

The influences

Having finally hooked up with two of the most singular voices in grime

There’s no shortage of individuality on 'Slime & Reason'

"I put all the samples at the forefront and create music around them"

Tigran Hamasyan

” sitting his voice in amongst heavenly vocal chops

She discovers an octagonal room with eight paintings

Their vision is to create a constant dialogue between the music and the visuals