Forest Swords - Panic (Official Video)

New album 'Bolted', released 20 October 2023 on Ninja Tune: forestswords.lnk.to/boltedYo
Autumn 2023 tour tickets on sale now: forestswords.co.uk/live
Saturday 2nd September - Varpalota, Hungary: INOTA Festival
Sunday 17th September - Sofia, Bulgaria: Wrong Fest
Thursday 2nd November - Manchester, UK: White Hotel
Friday 3rd November - Newcastle, UK: Cluny 2
Saturday 4th November - Glasgow, UK: The Great Western Festival
Friday 10th November - London, UK - ICA
Saturday 18th November - Paris, FR - Badaboum
Monday 20th November - Brussels, BE - AB Club
Tuesday 21st November - Amsterdam, NL - Bitterzoet
Wednesday 22nd November - Arnhem, NL - Willemeen
Thursday 23rd November - Leipzig, DE - UT Connewitz
Tuesday 28th November - Athens, GR - Municipal Theatre Of Piraeus
Tuesday 5th December - Copenhagen, DK - Hotel Cecil
Wednesday 6th December - Stockholm, SE - Slaktkyrkan
Taken from 'Compassion', out now via Ninja Tune. forestswords.lnk.to/compassion
Buy vinyl/t-shirts/merch: forestswords.ochre.store/
Listen to Forest Swords on Spotify - tinyurl.com/FS-spotify
Watch Forest Swords videos: bit.ly/2EE6Jx0
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Director: Sam Wiehl
Art direction: Matthew Barnes/Forest Swords
DOP: Marco Fanton
Performers: Maria Malone and Harper Danns
Editor: Sam Wiehl
Shot at Static Gallery and Vessel Studios, Liverpool
Commissioner: Theresa Adebiyi for Ninja Tune
A Dense Truth Production

[@madmoonrabbit]

I love it when a song describes a universal, subjective feeling, sonically, accurately AND in a unique or novel way. This song is a perfect example. Panic can be a heavy slow, exhausting, undulating creep, specifically if what you are most terrified by takes time to truly manifest. I simply adore the realization of this track.

[@elicassimir5878]

Why isn't this comment pinned?? This was well-spoken

[@noneya9035]

Jesus. Incredible comment

[@hellfeather2011]

It gets you all up in in the soul

[@thereverendepi_gee565]

what?

[@karanjotsingh1873]

Like first you hear from your doctor"your disease is getting worse you are going to die"
Even after realise what he said doesn't seem real you expect to wake up and find it was just a bad dream
But as day go by disease shows worse symptoms panic hit slowly and gradually
As you see it coming slowly
But approching the end the finishline death

[@hahaimatree8343]

Some of the pictures and scenes in this don't look actually painful, just uncomfortable. But after a while, they will easily become extremely painful, kind of like how panic takes time to manifest before it becomes uncontrollable fear.

[@bellou596]

Watching this while trying to suffocate a 1 am panic attack - you write the truth

[@s3dchr]

Forget the visuals, look at the sound.

[@orcasrising]

forest swords' music is like those nightmares you wake up screaming from but somehow you still want more.

[@hollowearthsounds]

nobody does that you goose.

[@orcasrising]

man, this is exhausting already.

[@blueinkheart]

writedrunk.editdrunk 1) I love your username. Great strategy. 2) Usually when that happens to me it's because the nightmare left off at a point that gave the dream a dark implication for my real life and I need the end of it to be resolved or else I remain scared even after waking. (ex. someone curses me in the dream to die a horrible death, and I have some kind of anti-curse potion to stop them, but the dream ends before I get to use it).

[@eliniatollea]

@writedrunk.editdrunk I do.

[@vaingirls9719]

Well, that exact thing happens to me! there's just something so fascinating about nightmares sometimes.

[@feverhound5623]

this is what 2020 sounds like

[@danforrest7709]

damn how can you say something so bold and controversial yet true

[@jelkafabianova2801]

They should use it on Vox for 2020 rewind

[@00IIIIIIIII00]

/sighs in disappointment

[@lightmetamorphosis]

So you're saying this sounds like shit?

[@argonpr2526]

we wish

[@milkmoth_69]

I love how it makes me happy, relaxed, scared, anxious all at the same time, I have no idea what going on but I like it's a good song

[@marioparra00]

Oh man, I would love to see him break down one of his sessions and see how he mangles samples and sound sources. Terrific work.

[@navigatingmadness180]

Sooo much this, I would LOVE to see his process

[@philiprizea8658]

Mario Parra fact tv 10 minute challenge, we need it

[@badatsmalltalk1220]

yesssssssssssssssssssssss

[@Vlatkasify]

:O YES.

[@Sigmatic850]

Great comment. Did you mean “wrangle”? I felt FS makes amazing music.

[@andreeacostea3624]

This is the song of 2020! The panic is on.

[@zrosenus4289]

I, I don't know how to describe how I felt when I first heard this, so surreal..

[@ashley101verve]

"If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath."
Amit Ray

[@Kisuke323]

Anxiety makes you short of breath - similiar to corona, actually

[@MissAndieKittie]

This feels like blood running through your veins, heart beating, sweat falling down your forehead, a weak sigh, the desperate tilt in the pupils, the last quiet breath taken before fear takes over your senses...

[@KP-ul2ep]

This sounds so evil and enchanting.

[@noahcoronado6807]

Or is itt

[@iamdiaze446]

Think it sound like brokekheart who grieves and survives

[@bartomiejl7893]

This sounds like something bad is about to happen, love it.

[@sergiopadilla6281]

Doubler I feel like "everything is going to be good" I don't know why jajaja

[@bartomiejl7893]

After a while i notice that even lady in the background is chanting something like "I feel like something's wrong", maybe i'm mishearing that though.

[@JESUISPOPPY]

I feel something's wrong
But the panic is on now
I feel something's wrong
But the panic is on
:)

[@bartomiejl7893]

Patricia T. Thanks for clearing that up :p

[@samanthatoad2211]

thought it was "i fear"?

[@baglady2652]

My tears are warm

[@georgelord8729]

The beautiful thing about art is it inspires more art💚

[@guventmz]

Been struggling with panic attack for years now. I used to find this video meaningless. But now, god, how good it feels to just keep watching and watching knowing that it exactly visualize how I feel through all these years. It is hard to describe the feeling of being in complete "there is something wrong" mode for years. You just described it in 5 mins. 10/10.

[@hey-zel]

This sounds like something Massive Attack would produce and I’m all here for it

[@rainnymph]

Aahhh i love massive attack, now i totally see those vibes omg

[@OrdinaryDays_Katelyn]

I feel something's wrong
But the panic is on
I feel something's wrong
But the panic is on
But the panic is on

[@hypergalacticatomreaction3048]

Katelyn Cheney I thought I heard, "Panic is home."

[@OrdinaryDays_Katelyn]

Hypergalactic Atom Reaction it does kinda sound like that too 😊 but the official Genius lyrics say “But the panic is on”

[@rainnymph]

Lol i heard "headaches are (indistinguishable word)"

[@s3dchr]

Thank you.

[@jessicaaudate]

We just has another school shooting today in the USA. I need to hear this

[@jessirose]

This video is simply amazing. I have a complicated connection with it.

[@djjohanf]

try a different internet provider...

[@OlaKatsuro]

song suits 'perfect blue' perfectly

[@vgss10]

This kind of cinematography is so satisfying to see. I love it

[@thatsaviour]

Midway watching this I was like, we're all going to die one day.

[@atsugadri3155]

That Saviour everyone dies 🤓

[@mikegeddie2263]

😎🤘🏻 this track is low key metal

[@amandabrewer9780]

Not today! i hope.

[@jon...5324]

that felt exactly like a bad trip

[@christiangerardodominguezo9225]

the comment i was looking for

[@cadenhannon3273]

I wanna listen to this song more but it’s like giving me an anxiety attack

[@septembersong9046]

Looks like more a dream, one of those that you don't remember, but keeping still in your ears, head and eyes. But never knows exactly what happened, just the feeling in your mind. This song have a sound of marching, the walk of the soldiers in the beginning of the war. Seems like the alert of a war and the emotions in one. It's obviously scary, but cerimonial too; divine and horrible. It is a "milk shake" of feelings that I don't know; or never feel. But it's reverberating, like my dreams when I'm sleep and in the mornings. Going on and on forever... Until I forget. War.

[@FartsCutely007]

Wow! Perfectly explained! I could never put that feeling into words. That feeling from the dream just changes your whole perspective for a few, it’s like you’re still a little stuck in that realm. Beautiful illustrations.

[@assortedpov9722]

This tune is incredible. Can't remember the last time I saw a good music video either but here we have one.

[@shirleyware9059]

There's just something about this that draws me to it, is so much feeling in one song!!! Thank you for sharing this!! I'm at a loss for words as to describe this, this has to be felt to know but not described in words.

[@orpheus0694]

The panic is on.

[@FromTheFens219]

It's called panic, but does anyone else find it strangely calming?

[@NorroTaku]

same
i thought I was alone

[@KidbuuGODMODE]

It's calming because it's been your natural state?

[@chickenmonger123]

It’s a cold and lonely calmness. Like a cold walk through the streets of a city right before sunrise. Buzz fading from the night. Fatigue and sleep asserting their presence slowly, but you are for now liberated from truly feeling the toll.

[@fupaullada82]

I shouldnt have watched this while stoned.

[@Maynard0504]

Ditto

[@makismoulos]

same here

[@concordenationrecords4144]

Nice piece of art. Looks like album covers in Polaroid-format.

[@norberttanca]

I've found this in your playlist: soundcloud.com/concordenation/isle-of-man-choose-life-podcast

[@judithrobson826]

Never seen it

[@emmielyn4472]

This is so full of heavenly subjection, it makes me cry.

[@groundcontrol-888]

Hello

[@stillemo6362]

As someone with adhd this mv is the definition of “good textures”

[@CALFCfan]

Have tix to see them in SF next month '24!!!

[@suite6creative]

That cello note in the beginning says it all. PANIC. Very anxiety inducing, in the best way possible. Another masterpiece from Forest Swords

[@eggheadusa9900]

A future that never was, or we are the past that never happened.

[@jeeteippii]

This has darkness in it. Nothing cruel or evil. Maybe slightly twisted. Like when you are overcome with feeligs like sorrow, fear etc and can feel the ache in your chest so badly that there is no choise but to succumb to it and relish in it, let it soothe you.

[@lightmetamorphosis]

My goodness, spoken like a true poet.

[@jeeteippii]

@@lightmetamorphosis Oh, thank you kindly. The other comment: I haven't really got more to add, but what I can tell is that otters are really cute animals.

[@lightmetamorphosis]

@@jeeteippii Yes, yes they are.

[@bree9019]

The visuals, the music, it's pure art. In all of the videos. Beautiful.

[@mariangelesarchidona5212]

the vibes, the stormy abstract music that dip in youre soul ! amazed

[@stephaniegonzalez2544]

The cinematography is pure art. I love the song too❤

[@waynedunn1108]

My taste in music is all over the place . I mainly listen to female heavy metal bands these days . I do have a liking for this music . Although I couldn't listen to it all the time . Same as I dont just listen to female metal . I liked it & enjoyed listening to it . Nice change . Sydney Australia 🦘🦘🦘 26/12/2023

[@omniaa1881]

the beginning reminded me of the background music of the joker dancing scene in the bathroom

[@beckyroberts5299]

I dunno...makes me want to bellydance. I don't even know how to bellydance. the core feels it though.

[@Doomkat713]

Becky Roberts As a bellydancer, I totally agree with you. I want to do something with this piece.

[@beckyroberts5299]

cool! hope it turns out lovely! (maybe post it?) I'd really like to learn bellydance. oh, the almighty someday.

[@Doomkat713]

Becky Roberts Sure! If I get a recording of it, I'll post it to my dance channel (Liska Bellydance). If you're interested in learning bellydance, check out the channel Free Bellydance Classes. Or Datura Online, where you can "rent" videos for as low as $8 per month. 😊

[@beckyroberts5299]

cool! thanks!!! good luck with it! :)

[@angelfishlatvia]

It totally sounds like perfect tribal fusion belly dance music

[@walterzamalis4846]

This song is pure foreboding

[@srpntnova]

Most Body-Horror music video I've seen. And whatever this song is a keeper.

[@hansmemling2311]

I saw them live yesterday. One of the best experiences of my life. Can’t thank you guys enough for bringing me this music.

[@derrickbudd5662]

water is Life ✌️

[@theironsmith1]

Art. Nothing but... PURE ART!!!!

[@AaronGodderis]

Absolute chills. Song is straight flow, as always. Whoever made the video..., my lord, absolutely unnerving and so well fitting and balanced to the song. Inspirational, truly. and I dont often give such praise.

[@iElenaaa]

this is beautiful af...perfection on all the levels!

[@jasso.183]

I found a way to explain my anxiety attacks. It's like I have an invisible glass plate in my hands, i am tired of carrying it, I can feel it slipping and I can't do anything about it. All I can do is fear it's impact on my bare feet. It's sound, crashing, over and over again. It's like that in your chest, in your head, taking up all the space like a thick heavy fog, throughout your entire body. And it can last 20 seconds or 30 minutes, sometimes even hours. And it doesn't make sense, because I don't have a glass plate and I am just having lunch at university.

[@jalapeno_biznizz]

Someone should contact this man for their next psychological thriller

[@GreMLinSLoveCoOkies]

I love Forest Swords music, but damn that video is good !

[@atrustedservant7976]

Wow. One focused sample loop over very evocative music some discordance mostly harmonics-punch you in the feels feel. No lyrics No faces No ego. Very impressive. Haven't seen actual art in a loooong time. Seems very current too. Here for 2020 pandemic. New sub. Hard core Indy buff with a thirst for actual up and coming talent. Impressive.Looking forward to seeing what else you have!

[@ibelieveicansoar]

Notice that the word “panic” is contained in “pandemic”

[@julielouvrier6386]

when sound and image perfectly match ! the panic feeling is so well described, no need for words ...we are close to perfection here

[@TheeOwlQueen]

it's been a long while since i've fall in love with something first listen, I have with this song and the entire album ♥

[@dmaniz888]

My first listen to Forest Swords. Sounds like a crossmix of Arca, Xiu Xiu and Nina Simone, and it's awesome

[@ppegah]

dmaniz888 i think you summed that up perfectly.

[@hmryan5287]

seconded - great description

[@politicalsloth614]

I'm not sure about the Xiu Xiu part?
What influence(s) do you hear?
I've mostly listened to Forget and Twin Peaks though, so I might not know them enough?

[@augusto7681]

dmaniz888 arca sound more Chaotic to me I dont hear similarities...

[@weeklyrsvids]

dmaniz888 I kenda think it sound like that 50 cent guy mabe mixd with a little Mariah Carey but just opinion

[@epifanioesquivel5457]

simply beautiful!

[@leenhares]

beautiful performances

[@BlissfulBombshells]

💫🖤💜Today I've Discovered This Fresh & New~To~Me Musical Artist who's PERFECT for My Movement whilst Practicing My Chaos~Craft. For This I Thank You & I Am Infinitely Grateful!!!💜🖤💫

[@dissolvedecho]

Its not often that an artist can make sounds of uada, but this has pegged it perfectly. The panic which resides inside the cage, is slow building or rapid fire. Outta no where the panic attacks, the panic button has been pushed, the panic is on.

[@Antz_411]

I have no idea how this got on my playlist in my car, but I have never questioned nor skipped it.
I happen to have found out the name and artist of this mysterious track randomly today.

[@karGUNof]

шикарный альбом, уже несколько лет на репите и все так же нравится

[@SedDelMar]

Simply beautiful.

[@aguaclaramusica]

I love everything on it

[@black-nails]

I keep coming back to this feelings and sounds

[@jfrancis]

This brings out the soul ghosts.

[@juliahale1031]

This is the second song I heard from Forest Swords. It came on after I took some amazing shrooms... best birthday ever 😊

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

That sounds genuinely horrifying lol. I remember hearing a song by a band called the Handsome Furs when I was high out of my mind and I was convinced it was the scariest shit Id ever heard lol. This song is much scarier

[@kuksiBG]

3:58 - dat bassline hommie

[@dillingerplan5663]

yo yo

[@janiszatmari6604]

Hristo Hristov the brown noise :)

[@kelly-charmainemarieflanag1098]

Nobody really wants panic, but 3 minutes to go through ALL the parts and reach the out door is cathartic. True panic comes from not believing you will make it to the out door.

[@phoebexxlouise]

i love to see a cheap video excellently well made

[@CrapAt0ItsBest]

Phoebe Louise lighting doesnt look cheap

[@mahamuud99]

wow that BURN you put them in there place girl they are so cheap and easy vidoeas

[@finemmusic]

cheap does not mean bad, or easy. cheap means low budget. this film is excellent, and done on a low budget.

[@Lunar_Solaris]

the only expensive thing here is the camera I guess

[@mahamuud99]

camera they got from art school o.o

[@barbarahernandez4166]

this song is so amazing

[@TheGizemCan]

Amazing! This is pure art!

[@healyoself_asj8234]

This is what I'm talking about! Love it!!!!

[@TildeSymbol]

this music video reminds me of The VVitch so much.

[@ritasilva8317]

Amazing!! i just love it.

[@konradkakonrad895]

daaaaamn that music is suuuuper cooooool

[@laurensabino182]

Armie brought me here and holy shit, this is amazing ❤️

[@guventmz]

I love you so much Matt you make me feel alive. Thank you.

[@artnyc1663]

Lovely

[@selinhesna6167]

one of my fav vids!!! love love love!!!

[@MisterButterfingers]

Literally my first time hearing about/listening to these guys. This was extremely refreshing.

[@thezimra9429]

so good

[@Lunaticsynth]

Third tune from Forest Swords I'm listening to... falling deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole.

[@alexramsesbeltran]

El arte no necesita gran presupuesto, solo talento....

[@MsSepsel]

beautiful!

[@justrandom5012]

3:27 love that part

[@chloeiacovou907]

The textures in this video are so appealing

[@woodlandflower87]

So Awesome !!!!!
It almost hypnotized me 🙏

[@baglady2652]

Amazing

[@sensukii6446]

Love the art

[@jennienie2587]

BEAUTIFUL

[@khali7368]

I feel so grateful right now.

[@kngn_4047]

Beautiful

[@shigoXIII]

Mesmerizing ♥

[@mecheysusteclas80]

Genial... Excelente audio!!! Saludos desde México...

[@caeridlock3930]

This is so amazingly beautiful.

[@user-rk5sj7ni6u]

wow just wow i love this so much

[@themoribundapathetic4530]

this video was so beautiful my soul stopped feeling empty

[@beanbean4563]

amazing visuals

[@mijailpavka2805]

First time i hear it... I love it. Sampling, raw basses, ethnics sounds... Perfect combo.

[@shirleyware6637]

I find this simply amazing and entrancing thank you!!!