This track is a trailer for the album ‘Compassion’ – Forest Swords rocked St Lukes as one of Anna Meredith’s supports at the BBC 6 Music Festival gig a couple of weeks ago and this does not disappoint.
More stately than some of his sounds that night, it grows slowly over five of so minutes, irregular percussion backing some disjointed vocals with swirling keyboards and bass.
Things start starkly, a wee bit Young Fathers perhaps but also heavy referencing of Knitting Buttons/Blanck Mass – it is very good indeed, one of two preview tracks for the album, it is sophisticated electronica with real depth.