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The electronic producer brings the lazers and haze with a performance of The Highest Flood.
Watch Forest Swords exclusively perform The Highest Flood in the player above.
Graphic designer turned electronic producer Matthew Barnes, aka Forest Swords, has always been preoccupied with the visual. He spends more time in museums and art galleries than he does listening to other people’s music. He thinks about his dark, organic, experimental tracks in terms of colours and textures. He scored In The Robot Skies, the first film shot entirely with drones, and has composed for contemporary dance pieces as well as the video game Assassin’s Creed. He even toyed with encasing the limited edition of his new album in rock – until he considered the postage and packaging costs.
So we weren’t surprised when Forest Swords rocked up for this exclusive RedBull.com studio session with a full complement of haze and light show. In a performance that captures all the urgency and uncanniness of his music, he plays The Highest Flood, a track taken from his second album Compassion. Full of clattering, fractured sound that comes together into something powerful and beautiful, it’s inspired by the Sisyphean struggle, in today’s world, to see light at the end of the tunnel – and the realisation “there’s some sort of power in trying to create our own instead”.
Foret Swords is on tour. More info here.
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