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The Machine Air (Original Film Soundtrack)
Artist
Forest Swords
ReleaseProduct
The Machine Air (Original Film Soundtrack)
Label
Dense Truth
Catalogue Number
TJRUTH006
Release Date
December 6, 2019

Genres

Liam Young’s The Machine Air represents a landmark in cinema due to it being the first film to be recorded by flying drones. Forest Swords (Matthew Barnes), then, is an intriguing choice to soundtrack the movie. While electronics and experimentation have long been a part of the project’s music, much of Forest Swords’ previous releases have had a distinctly old-world, almost ancient, sensibility to them - more marching into battle than march of progress.

Unsurprisingly, his music here is more gestural than the stomping, often rather ceremonial-sounding music of his studio LPs. Barnes pulls his sounds apart in a manner that recalls recent OST work by Clark, his electronic and organic instruments set out to create widescreen ambient vistas or little kernels of rhythm.

In fact, it is the tension between the past and the future that gives Barnes’ score for The Machine Air such potency. While droid-like synths gurgle and sputter, the interjection of chilly guitars or reverb-drenched keyboards provide the music with an on-edge quality that feels decidedly animalistic. These sounds conjure a similarly primal feeling to the whispering, pensive music of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s score for The Revenant or the recent screenwork of Nick Cave & Warren Ellis.

Forest Swords ushers us into a world of frosty, abstract cyberpunk in his score for Liam Young’s groundbreaking movie The Machine Air.

Digital Track List

  1. 1 Taking Off 3:12 Buy

    Taking Off

  2. 2 Swarm 2:46 Buy

    Swarm

  3. 3 Do Drones Go to Heaven? 3:03 Buy

    Do Drones Go to Heaven?

  4. 4 The Textile Factory 2:23 Buy

    The Textile Factory

  5. 5 Civilians 3:16 Buy

    Civilians

  6. 6 Open Water, Looking Down 2:48 Buy

    Open Water, Looking Down

  7. 7 Lithium Pool 2:19 Buy

    Lithium Pool

  8. 8 Lithium Pool (Reprise) 0:31 Buy

    Lithium Pool (Reprise)

  9. 9 Police 2:18 Buy

    Police

  10. 10 Target Night Vision 3:41 Buy

    Target Night Vision

  11. 11 Dust Settle 1:12 Buy

    Dust Settle

  12. 12 Medic Drop 1:56 Buy

    Medic Drop

  13. 13 Heatseeking 2:30 Buy

    Heatseeking

  14. 14 Battery Power Down 3:02 Buy

    Battery Power Down

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