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Compassion. Vinyl - 2021 transparent orange vinyl repress with print insert -
Compassion. Vinyl - 2021 transparent orange vinyl repress with print insert -
Compassion. Vinyl - 2021 transparent orange vinyl repress with print insert -
Compassion. Vinyl - 2021 transparent orange vinyl repress with print insert -
Compassion. Vinyl - 2021 transparent orange vinyl repress with print insert -
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Compassion
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- Compassion
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZEN243
- Release Date
- May 25, 2017
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Vinyl 1×LP, Limited Coloured
Sold outTransparent orange edition with new interior artwork
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Additional 12"x12" insert print exclusive to this edition
Limited run of 300, pressed in 2022 -
Vinyl 1×LP (Deluxe)
Sold outGatefold clear/transparent vinyl edition
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Gatefold outer sleeve
Printed card inner sleeve
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Vinyl 1×LP
Sold out180g heavyweight black vinyl
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180g heavyweight 1 x 12” black vinyl with spined sleeve + printed card inners + 12 x 12” insert.
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CD
$11.00Read MoreZEN243
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"Forest Swords, aka acclaimed Merseyside-based producer Matthew Barnes, returns with his eagerly anticipated new full-length record.
'Compassion' engages with an uncertain world we’re experiencing, distilling it into a unique sound territory: Barnes' exploration of the mid-point between ecstasy and frustration, artificial and human feels timely and affecting. The result is an assured, compelling 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.
'Compassion' is an album that's as weighty as it is vulnerable, sculpting the most striking parts of his previous work into something that feels urgent and necessary, and cementing Barnes as one of the UK's most significant electronic artists and composers."
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- ReleaseProduct
- Bolted deluxe vinyl
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZEN297X
- Release Date
- October 20, 2023
- LP (special)
- Bundle
- Sold out
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- ReleaseProduct
- Bolted CD
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZENCD297
- Release Date
- October 20, 2023
- CD
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- ReleaseProduct
- Bolted coloured vinyl
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZEN297
- Release Date
- October 20, 2023
- LP (special)
- Bundle
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- ReleaseProduct
- Bolted slimline vinyl
- Label
- Ninja Tune
- Catalogue Number
- ZEN297S
- Release Date
- October 20, 2023
- LP (special)
- Bundle
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- ReleaseProduct
- The Machine Air (Original Film Soundtrack)
- Label
- Dense Truth
- Catalogue Number
- TJRUTH006
- Release Date
- February 3, 2021
- LP (special)
- Download
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- ReleaseProduct
- Shrine: Original Dance Score
- Label
- Dense Truth
- Catalogue Number
- TJRUTH002
- Release Date
- June 26, 2020
- LP (special)
- Download
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- ReleaseProduct
- 'Arrow/Wire' + 'Door/Mirror' Shirt Bundle
- Label
- Dense Truth
- Release Date
- March 15, 2022
- Bundle