| Forest Swords / Compassion |
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| Album: | Compassion | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Forest Swords | Added: | May 2017 | |
| Label: | Ninja Tune | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2017-05-25 | Pull Date: | 2017-07-27 | Charts: | RPM/Electronica |
| Week Ending: | Jul 30 | Jul 23 | Jul 16 | Jul 9 | Jun 11 | Jun 4 | May 28 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 07, 2017: | All Passion No Technique Raw Language | 4. | Jul 29, 2017: | Music Casserole The Highest Flood | |
| 2. | Aug 31, 2017: | moodswings The Highest Flood | 5. | Jul 23, 2017: | The Daily Bump Panic | |
| 3. | Jul 30, 2017: | The Daily Bump Arms Out, War It | 6. | Jul 22, 2017: | Narnia The Highest Flood |
| Album Review |
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| Shay Z Reviewed 2017-05-21 | ||
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Epic, experimental UK dub with orchestral tendencies. Some great science-fiction movies fuse historical mystique with futuristic technology (e.g. Prometheus). This is the musical equivalent of that synthesis. Like discovering a ruined civilization in a jungle on a distant planet, Matthew Barnes masterfully blends the artificial and the natural. While this album doesn’t surpass his incredible debut, Barnes succeeds in producing epic, forward-thinking music strongly rooted in organic instrumentation. Prepare to be awed by his vision and song craft. Genre: both forest and sword RIYL: Burial, Andy Stott, Arca, Tim Hecker FCCs: No Favorite Tracks: 1, 2, 3, 6 War It (5:54)* - great song, anthemic, dark; long rise to an exciting climax The Highest Flood (5:07)* - triumphant yet tense, wow, such anxiety Panic (4:48)** - kinda eastern melody with swaggering percussion, paranoid vocal samples add to the atmosphere Exalter (5:36) - consistent distant ringing metallic percussion, epic choral vox Border Margin Barrier (3:08) - instrumental, less purposeful track, lots of fuzz and reverb, almost entirely percussion-less Arms Out (5:47)* - grand, compassionate, choppy vocals almost sing, dancey with lovely strings Vandalism (4:37) - epic percussion, tense, distant war horns, very minimal Sjurvival (2:26) - train in rain, twisted vocals beneath layers of reverb and effects Raw Language (4:28) - joyful, experimental brass sections, reverby Knife Edge (6:16) - some beautiful piano melodies, long, pretty close to the record | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | War It | 6. | Arms Out | |||
| 2. | The Highest Flood | 7. | Vandalism | |||
| 3. | Panic | 8. | Sjurvival | |||
| 4. | Exalter | 9. | Raw Language | |||
| 5. | Border Margin Barrier | 10. | Knife Edge |