Cambridge-ites Forest have announced the release of a new EP entitled 'Caramel Arms', out on October 14 via Indelabel. The EP - which follows their May debut with 'Sweetcure' - is available as a limited four-track edition colour 10”.
'Caramel Arms' promises to be "less guitar driven and more varied”, says singer/guitarist Henry Barraclough: “It’s less scuzzy but sort of offers more in terms of the overall emotional effect of each song. It has more colours in it.”
Opening with the optimistic and fast-driving beats of ‘Coaster’, Forest unleash lively gazoo-like vocal harmonies and thrashing riffs before bending their guitars to the hilt on ’99’, making way for the summer sunburst of ‘Warm Tyres’, written and sung by guitarist Peter Liddard. This emotional journey ends with a melting pot of lo-fi fuzz showing the growing disillusion and frustration on ‘Oh’, the final track that comes snugly wrapped in Barraclough’s personal production values: “It's a false idea that every song 'should' be crystal clear. That's just one idea on how to create a mood. I remember George Martin, The Beatles producer saying that you really don't have to try and replicate the real life sound of what you're recording; you sort of paint a new image that's potentially more evocative...in the same way impressionist or abstract art can be more powerful than a perfect piece of fine art that looks just like a photo. I hope the pendulum swings back soon, otherwise everything might become soullessly perfect.”
Forest are set for the following upcoming live dates:
SEPTEMBER
04
Leicester, The Shed
05
Bristol, Stag and Hounds
06
Cardiff, ifor bach
07
Brighton, The Hope
09
Cambridge, Portland
10
London, Buffalo Bar
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