Rustie - Glass Swords - VINYL LP

Forest Swords unveils his new album on Ninja Tune. Bolted is available on 'fresh green' transparent LP, limited edition 'winter wind' opaque deluxe LP, and CD. Spending the past few years working as an in-demand composer and sound designer - writing music for ballet, film and video games - 'Bolted' was recorded over the past year in a warehouse factory space in Barnes' home city of Liverpool. Across it's 11 tracks he dives deeper into his unique sonic vocabulary to weave together a set of tracks that sounds equally muscular and bleak, haunting and euphoric.As ever in his music, melancholy and joy, monochrome and colour, past and future all feel ambiguous. Emotions shift from moment to moment, the differences between digital and acoustic instruments more smeared than ever a queering of time, space and sonics that feels both playful and totally vital. InchBoth sincere and sublimeInch - Resident Advisor InchA stunning vision, hypnoticInch - DJ Mag InchThe goosebumps will cover most of your bodyInch - Exclaim! (8/10)InchThe perfect soundtrack to the precarious times we live inInch - PopMatters (8/10)A1. Munitions A2. Butterfly EffectA3. RubbleA4. Night SculptureA5. CagedA6. Tar (short edit version)B1. The LowB2. Chain LinkB3. HjopeB4. End B5. Line Gone Cold Album Tracks 1. Munitions 2. Butterfly Effect 3. Rubble 4. Night Sculpture 5. Caged 6. Tar 7. The Low 8. Chain Link 9. Hjope 10. End 11. Line Gone Gold

Davis Sinfonie Rundfunk - Winbeck Erste Sinfonie - Tu Soolus [COMPACT DISCS] date 12/01/1990

Vinyl LP pressing, includes digital download. InchCompassionInch, the follow-up to 2013's critically lauded debut Engravings, will be released on 5th May 2017 via Ninja Tune. The album will be followed by a set of multidisciplinary projects expanding the themes and concepts across wider disciplines, overseen by Forest Swords own Dense Truth, an experimental art studio and record tag. CompassionInch is a response to the uncertain, aggressive new world were experiencing and communicating within, distilling it into a unique sound territory Barnes' exploration of the mid-point between ecstasy and melancholy, artificial and human feels timely and affecting; a celebration of primal connections, life itself, and an anxious glance at the direction we're heading. The result is an assured, compelling, vital body of work, tying together the ancient and future weaving swathes of buzzing digital textures, field recordings, clattering beats and distorted jazz sax with fizzing orchestral arrangements. The album shifts from 'The Highest Flood's skeletal bounce to 'Panic's claustrophobic paranoia; the rapturous hyperballad 'Arms Out' to the windswept and cinematic Knife Edge, navigating through the orchestral glitch of 'War It' to decaying jazz thump of Raw Language. The album is equal parts disorienting and immersive, balancing bold sweeping gestures and crumbling textures; tracks seemingly disintegrating and reassembling at points across the album. Blending both digital and specially recorded brass, strings and vocals, Barnes's processing never truly makes it clear what's new or old, sampled or unique, constantly blurring and toying with the line between digital and acoustic. The 'mixed media' approach extends to the record's packaging and design, all directed by Barnes himself. The visuals intersect many of the albums themes bodies, connection, language and movement with the del