Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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“absolutely phenomenal” – The Quietus

"scintillating.. a defiant desolate and darkly beautiful album – 9/10" – The Line of Best Fit

“Muscular electronics from the factory floor… possessing an undeniable sense of grandeur that can take your breath away” – Electronic Sound

“like figures in a misted landscape… blurring sources into ambiguous spaces between organ and woodwind” – The Wire

"planetary in scale.. a cold world where broken, snarling things have no choice but to huddle together for survival" – Pitchfork

"Having spent 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 a year in a warehouse factory space in Forest Swords' home city of Liverpool. Across its 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 euphoria, monochrome and colour, past and future all feel ambiguous. Emotions shift from moment to moment, differences between digital and acoustic instruments more smeared than ever: time, space and sonics move freely in a way that feels equally playful and totally vital. Defiant, desolate, and darkly beautiful: 'Bolted' cements Forest Swords as one of the most remarkable and singular voices working in electronic music." – Ninja Tune

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Tracklisting:
00:00 - Munitions
03:46 - Butterfly Effect
07:19 - Black Ice
11:16 - Night Sculpture
14:43 - Caged
19:16 - Tar
20:48 - The Low
24:27 - Chain Link
28:10 - Hjope
31:22 - End
35:34 - Line Gone Cold

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