Forest Swords

Matthew Barnes, the UK producer who records under the name Forest Swords, makes ominous, intense, meditative instrumental music. Last year, he returned after a long…

Experimental producer Matthew Barnes, who puts out music as Forest Swords, released one of the best albums of the year so far with Compassion, and…

Forest Swords have shared a video for "Raw Language" from Compassion, one of our favorite albums of the year so far. Director Sam Wiehl refracts…

Matthew Barnes, the composer and producer behind the Forest Swords moniker, is the first to tell you that he doesn’t listen to all that much…

Almost four years ago, Matthew Barnes, the UK producer who records under the name Forest Swords, released an ominous and entrancing album called Engravings. Next…

As Forest Swords, UK producer Matthew Barnes makes murky, genre-agnostic music that sounds like it would be playing during some mystical ancient ritual. After nearly…

It's been nearly four years since Matthew Barnes, the UK producer who records as Forest Swords, released Engravings, a truly great album of dark, enveloping…

Red Bull Music Academy is returning to New York City for the third year in a row for a month-long series of events. Highlights include…

There were lots of good videos this week, but I didn't like any of them as much as I hated Jerry James's video for "Lana…

Last year, the British guitarist and producer Forest Swords gave us Engravings, a deeply absorbing album of ominous, skeletal, spaced-out almost-instrumentals. It's one of those…

Earlier this year, New York Times pop critic Jon Caramanica wrote a piece about pop's Summer Of Smooth, about how many of this year's big…

Engravings, the dark marvel of an album that the British producer Forest Swords released earlier this year, is one of those albums that seems to…

Forest Swords has put out a new video for "Thor's Stone," one of the best tracks off our recent Album Of The Week, Engravings. Director…