NTS regular Forest Swords has been hosting Forest Swords Dense Truth Residency since 1 August 2017. Forest Swords hosted a guest show on 31 October 2023. Forest Swords has been played on NTS over 70 times, featured on 65 episodes and was first played on 8 August 2013.

Forest Swords is one producer, Matthew Barnes, from the Wirral, Liverpool, UK. A unique blend of jagged hip-hop and R&B beats, looping guitar lines and manipulated samples, his evocative and emotional music reflects the sprawling Wirral landscape of river, coastland and woodland with all the haunting melodies of nearby city Liverpool’s enviable pop history.

His studio EP –…