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Forest Swords Premiers Weight Of Gold Video With Nowness

• 20th Feb 2014

Forest Swords have premiered the official video for “The Weight of Gold” ahead of forthcoming live dates in the UK and Europe, as well as a brief USA tour with How to Dress Well.

The lead track from Forest Swords critically acclaimed 2013 LP “Engravings”, “The Weight of Gold” video is directed by “Black Swan” choreographer, and the new director of dance at the Paris Opera Ballet, Benjamin Millepied.

Matthew Barnes, AKA Forest Swords, says: “The locations Benjamin picked for this video really resonated with me. I’ve always associated the songs on Engravings with the British landscape — woodland and sandstone, because that’s the environment I live in and produced the record in — but taking the music out of that context and placing it in Israel shifts the track in a direction I didn’t expect.”

Watch the video here:

Forest Swords: The Weight of Gold on Nowness.com

“The Weight of Gold” is also available as a free download from http://forestswords.co.uk