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- Summary: This is the second full-length release for the electronic project of Matthew Barnes.
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- Record Label: Ninja Tune
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Positive: 13 out of 16
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Mixed: 3 out of 16
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May 5, 2017Compassion may feel especially timely, but music this passionately realized will always be worth revisiting.
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May 9, 2017There’s an incredible amount of space at play on Compassion; the instrumentation and samples inhale and exhale, breathing life into the tracks.
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ExclaimMay 5, 2017While Barnes is definitely well-versed in musical melancholy, there's also a thoughtful, sensitive part to balance all this pathos.
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May 5, 2017Forest Swords was already becoming quickly respected for his deftness of touch when dealing with both musical and emotional tone. Compassion demonstrates he is very capable of weaving them together until they are intrinsically entwined.
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May 18, 2017There is something martial, something insistent, to Compassion. True to his aims, Barnes has created something that denies passivity.
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Jul 5, 2017Compassion is slightly less impenetrable and esoteric than Barnes' other albums, its emotions slightly more telegraphed. But it loses none of his power to enthral, disturb and enthuse.
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May 9, 2017Forest Swords' second record is simplistic on purpose, but that doesn’t make it feel less empty.
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