Forest Swords – Engravings

Forest Swords – Engravings (Triangle Records)

Over the past few years, Triangle Records has helped highlight a crop of hermetic young producers sprouting up around the world who specialise in grafting elements of hip hop and R&B into barren electronic soundscapes. Forest Swords’ haunting 2010 EP Dagger Paths was among the label’s most rewarding and acclaimed early releases. Despite the EP’s success, its creator, a producer from the UK countryside by the name of Matthew Barnes, remained in obscurity as he battled hearing problems and focused on his day job as a graphic designer. With his long-awaited full-length debut, he emerges from his dormancy with a more refined take on the murky melancholy of his early work. Much as an engraving is traced on to a flat surface with the intention of using it to create prints, Engravings carves something remarkable out of an unremarkable existence and will likely leave a lasting impression on all who hear it.

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