Compassion, the follow-up to 2013s critically lauded debut Engravings, will be released on 5th May 2017 via Ninja Tune. The album will be followed by a set of multidisciplinary projects expanding the themes and concepts across wider disciplines, overseen by Forest Swords own Dense Truth, an experimental art studio and record label. Compassion is a response to the uncertain, aggressive new world were experiencing and communicating within, distilling it into a unique sound territory: Barnes exploration of the mid-point between ecstasy and melancholy, artificial and human feels timely and affecting; a celebration of primal connections, life itself, and an anxious glance at the direction were heading. The result is an assured, compelling, vital body of work, tying together the ancient and future: weaving swathes of buzzing digital textures, field recordings, clattering beats and distorted jazz sax with fizzing orchestral arrangements. The album shifts from The Highest Floods skeletal bounce to Panics claustrophobic paranoia; the rapturous hyperballad Arms Out to the windswept and cinematic Knife Edge, navigating through the orchestral glitch of War It to decaying jazz thump of Raw Language. The album is equal parts disorienting and immersive, balancing bold sweeping gestures and crumbling textures; tracks seemingly disintegrating and reassembling at points across the album. Blending both digital and specially recorded brass, strings and vocals, Barness processing never truly makes it clear whats new or old, sampled or unique, constantly blurring and toying with the line between digital and acoustic.
War It
The Highest Flood
Panic
Exalter
Border Margin Barrier
Arms Out
Vandalism
Sjurvival
Raw Language
Knife Edge
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