Los Angeles artist Forest is excited to announce her debut album, Swan Dive, available everywhere September 25, via AWAL. New single ‘Anchor’ arrives alongside the announcement, painting a vivid picture of what it’s like to be tethered to haunted memories. Forest ponders the burden of time over emo-tinged breakdowns as grounding drums carry her to stability.
“‘Anchor’ delves into the idea of becoming wrapped up in something you can’t get out of,” Forest explains. “It was written in my childhood bedroom on a trip to Chicago, at a time when I had felt the past wrap its arms around me. The thought of being stuck and tied to the past was the driving thought throughout this track.”
Swan Dive arrives as Forest’s most fully realized work to date, expanding the alt-rock foundation of her earlier releases into something sonically larger and more fluid. Across the ten-track record, walls of distorted guitars collide with electronic textures, industrial undercurrents, and moments of startling pop clarity. Her new music is intimate but overwhelming, capable of shifting from whispered confession to emotional freefall in the span of a few measures.
Swan Dive:
- Vulture
- Anchor
- Prosthetic Stars
- Breathe Out
- Hot One
- Juliet
- Lay With Me
- Divine Machine
- Whatever You Want
- Whore & Savior
