Electronic music producer Forest Swords is hitting a few dates across the US and Canada this year. Forest Swords, real name Matthew Barnes, will perform sets in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, ...

When they perform live, Forest Swords reveal themselves for what they really are, which is the world’s proggiest dub reggae ensemble. On a recent evening in New York City, Matthew Barnes, who composes ...

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 absence with the new album ...

Forest Swords, the artist project of Liverpool-based producer/composer Matthew Barnes, is back. "Butterfly Effect" is the first new Forest Swords material since 2018. The dark and percussive track ...

British electronic artist Forest Swords is back with his first songs in five years. “Butterfly Effect” features a previously unheard vocal sample by Neneh Cherry—with whom he previously worked on a ...

If you’re a hawkeyed, dangerously obsessive Stereogum reader, you might have noticed that I didn’t start posting until late on Friday morning. That’s because I was in the parking lot of my ...

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 four years of silence, Barnes ...

Ninja Tune-signed UK producer Forest Swords has announced a few North American dates in June, kicking off in Brooklyn at Music Hall of WIlliamsburg on 6/14 and from there heading to Chicago, Los ...

Forest Swords’ fast-approaching debut album very nearly never came to be. After releasing 2010’s critically beloved Dagger Paths EP, U.K. producer Matthew Barnes toyed with the idea of retiring his ...

Forest Swords has announced details of Bolted, his first album since 2017. Today's album announcement is accompanied by "The Low" and "Caged," two tracks from the album. They follow "Butterfly Effect" ...