Celebrating the first anniversary of 'Bolted', Matthew Barnes revisits the material by improvising a full set of ambient reinterpretations.
Rarely does an album do so squarely what it promises, but at least it's for a good cause. Barnes has released 'Bolted (Deconstructed)' as a fundraiser for winter food banks in Liverpool. After finishing his run of live shows for the original album, he took a few random stems from each track and pieced them together again using just "a couple of pieces of hardware" to help him out. And they're definitely deconstructed - each track has been stripped of its beats and recognizable leads: the album's moody opener 'Munitions', originally an overdriven lurch of angular knocks and jagged stabs, is now six minutes of cinematic ambience and theatrical instrumental phrases, while the industrial, Muslimgauze-like 'Rubble' has been reduced to throbbing chorals and weightless strings. It's basically a completely new album, so if you've been following Barnes' score work, there'll probably be something in here worth salvaging.
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Celebrating the first anniversary of 'Bolted', Matthew Barnes revisits the material by improvising a full set of ambient reinterpretations.
Rarely does an album do so squarely what it promises, but at least it's for a good cause. Barnes has released 'Bolted (Deconstructed)' as a fundraiser for winter food banks in Liverpool. After finishing his run of live shows for the original album, he took a few random stems from each track and pieced them together again using just "a couple of pieces of hardware" to help him out. And they're definitely deconstructed - each track has been stripped of its beats and recognizable leads: the album's moody opener 'Munitions', originally an overdriven lurch of angular knocks and jagged stabs, is now six minutes of cinematic ambience and theatrical instrumental phrases, while the industrial, Muslimgauze-like 'Rubble' has been reduced to throbbing chorals and weightless strings. It's basically a completely new album, so if you've been following Barnes' score work, there'll probably be something in here worth salvaging.
Celebrating the first anniversary of 'Bolted', Matthew Barnes revisits the material by improvising a full set of ambient reinterpretations.
Rarely does an album do so squarely what it promises, but at least it's for a good cause. Barnes has released 'Bolted (Deconstructed)' as a fundraiser for winter food banks in Liverpool. After finishing his run of live shows for the original album, he took a few random stems from each track and pieced them together again using just "a couple of pieces of hardware" to help him out. And they're definitely deconstructed - each track has been stripped of its beats and recognizable leads: the album's moody opener 'Munitions', originally an overdriven lurch of angular knocks and jagged stabs, is now six minutes of cinematic ambience and theatrical instrumental phrases, while the industrial, Muslimgauze-like 'Rubble' has been reduced to throbbing chorals and weightless strings. It's basically a completely new album, so if you've been following Barnes' score work, there'll probably be something in here worth salvaging.
Celebrating the first anniversary of 'Bolted', Matthew Barnes revisits the material by improvising a full set of ambient reinterpretations.
Rarely does an album do so squarely what it promises, but at least it's for a good cause. Barnes has released 'Bolted (Deconstructed)' as a fundraiser for winter food banks in Liverpool. After finishing his run of live shows for the original album, he took a few random stems from each track and pieced them together again using just "a couple of pieces of hardware" to help him out. And they're definitely deconstructed - each track has been stripped of its beats and recognizable leads: the album's moody opener 'Munitions', originally an overdriven lurch of angular knocks and jagged stabs, is now six minutes of cinematic ambience and theatrical instrumental phrases, while the industrial, Muslimgauze-like 'Rubble' has been reduced to throbbing chorals and weightless strings. It's basically a completely new album, so if you've been following Barnes' score work, there'll probably be something in here worth salvaging.