Forest Swords - DJ-Kicks

Score: 8.7 

The latest release from the unclassifiable electronic producer Matthew Barnes comes in the shape of a curation for record label !K7's classic edition of DJ-Kicks. It's a fantastic journey that lets us dive deep into the artist's mindset, personal likes and possible influences when it comes to music as a manifesto. Twenty-seven tracks roll and blend into each other for an hour to create something as raw, wild and cacophonous as liberatingly wide, coherent and elegant. Going through eras, genres, moods and messages, this compilation of tracks can easily define Forest Swords' own music: timeless, rooted into the ancient past but fixed onto the unknown and otherworldly organic future.

Tracks I like the most: Best Friend (Mixed), With The Day Comes The Dawn (Mixed), Blank Project (Mixed), Crow, Gyal A Devil (Mixed), Mnemosyne (Mixed), Here Before (Mixed)

Tracks I like the least: Three Sisters Theme

Artist: Forest Swords

Country: United Kingdom

Album: DJ-Kicks

Released: 18/05/2018

Genres: Electronic, Experimental, Dub, Techno, IDM, Ambient, Reggae, Psychedelic, Folk, Sound Collage
Length: 64:36