UK producer Forest Swords returns with a haunted new single, built on a shadowy, lurching beat and that eerie disembodied choral sample, out today on Ninja Tune. Listen to "The Highest Flood" below.
Liverpool's Forest Swords drops an "original audio score created for contemporary dance piece Shrine". FS says of scoring the Carmel Koster-choreographed piece: "For me, the past six months has involved watching how bodies can fail and fix...
Life's too fucking short. 'Engravings' out 26th August via @TriAngleRecords THE WEIGHT OF GOLD >> http://t.co/ha5MtTgb2G
— Forest Swords (@forestswords) July 18, 2013
Life moves and shifts but tjruth is the witness. Love always. THOR'S STONE>>> soundcloud.com/forestswords/t…
— Forest Swords (@forestswords) June 6, 2013
Rad new 20-minute mix by Forest Swords for BBC 6 Music, featuring tracks from Oneohtrix Point Never, Echo Lake, Women, Pariah, King Tubby, Dilla, and more. Almost as ill as the mix he hooked up for us a year ago this month. Download below via Abeano / Altered Zones, and check the full tracklist after the jump:
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Forest Swords' limited new Rattling Cage 7" single is out today on No Pain In Pop. We posted the daunting title track last month, and here's the equally immense b-side:
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The Rattling Cage 7" is limited to 300 copies...
"Rattling Cage" is the latest daunting, spectral psych-dub death march from Liverpool's amazing Forest Swords, taken from his new single, due next month on the great No Pain In Pop. Check the appropriately tense video below, and pre-order the single on limited 7" vinyl (300 copies) here...
"Visits" is the third and final installment in Forest Swords' video trilogy. All songs appear on Dagger Paths, which is available now on Olde English Spelling Bee.
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Forest Swords exclusive mixtape
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Our friends at Olde English Spelling Bee are set to release Dagger Paths, the debut full-length from Wirral, UK drone-step shaman Forest Swords, on March 1. As a preview, the label sent over this mesmerizing exclusive mixtape put together by Forest Swords, featuring deep, dank jams from Pariah, Ducktails, Burial, Madlib, Arch M, Jeru, King Tubby, and a few other surprises, plus some dubbed-out psychedelic new remixes and original material from Forest Swords himself. Download via mediafire below (includes full tracklist and cover art). Highly recommended:
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Forest Swords' Dagger Paths LP is out March 1. Pre-order from OESB and get an exclusive bonus track. Check the Dagger Paths cover art, as well as two previously posted videos with new re-mastered audio, after the jump...
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Hazy new "elevator psyche" jam from ex-Texan and new Not Not Fun signee Rangers:
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Culled from the excellent (free) new Friendship Bracelet Club compilation, which also features stellar, previously unreleased jams from Forest Swords, Julian Lynch, Tonstartssbandht, Dem Hunger, Pure Ecstacy, and many more...