Forest Swords - Bolted [Translucent Algae Green 140g Vinyl]

Ninja Tune

£22.95

Format: LP, Translucent algae green 140g vinyl
Catalogue No.: ZEN297
Barcode: 5054429176087
Release Date: 20 Oct 2023
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

Translucent algae green 140g vinyl in a matte varnish sleeve with printed inner sleeve. Also includes 12” double-sided art print and download code. Art direction and design by Forest Swords. Mastered by Matt Colton.

 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 guerilla 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 ‘Bolted’’s 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 ‘Compassion’, released in 2017 - saw Barnes toy with widescreen technicolour, the world of ‘Bolted’ is tightly wound, taught, with a sense of aching urgency like never before.
 Forthcoming headline world tour and new live show will begin in the UK
shortly after album release at ICA in London, White Hotel (Manchester), The Cluny (Newcastle), Mackintosh Church (Glasgow) and festival dates (INOTA, Wrong Fest).
 For fans of Aphex Twin, Björk, Oneohtrix Point Never, Andy Stott, Boards of Canada, Burial, Massive Attack.
 CD housed in gatefold matte varnish sleeve with CD pocket.
 Deluxe LP pressed on light indigo 140g vinyl in a gatefold matte varnish outer sleeve with printed inner sleeve. Also includes a 12-page artwork
booklet, double-sided 12” art print and download code.
 Standard LP pressed on translucent algae green 140g vinyl in a matte
varnish sleeve with printed inner sleeve. Also includes 12” double-sided art print and download code.
 Art direction and design by Forest Swords. Mastered by Matt Colton.
 Press - Reviews & features in Pitchfork, The FADER, DJ Mag, Stereogum, Crack, Resident Advisor, Clash, The Line of Best Fit, Dork, The Quietus, The New Yorker, Creative Review, The Guardian, The Times, Time Out, Billboard, i-D, Dazed, FACT, DIY, Mixmag, NME, The Wire, Q, AV Club, Exclaim!, Loud & Quiet, Pop Matters.
 Radio - NTS Residency, BBC 6 Music Album Of The Day, Mary Anne Hobbs, Lauren Laverne, Radcliffe & Maconie, Steve Lamacq, Gilles Peterson, Nemone, Tom Ravenscroft, BBC Radio 1 Benji B, Huw Stephens, Maida Vale Session; BBC Radio 3, Radio X, Rinse FM, Virgin Radio, Resonance FM.
 Online - Forthcoming HÖR mix, NTS guest mix .