“‘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:

1. Vulture
2. Anchor
3. Prosthetic Stars
4. Breathe Out
5. Hot One
6. Juliet
7. Lay With Me
8. Divine Machine
9. Whatever You Want
10. Whore & Savior

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“‘Lay With Me’ came from the mindset that you can write something simple and still make it powerful and meaningful,” Forest shares. “Asking someone to lie beside you is such a simple request, but sometimes even asking seems like too much. This song starts off with the first verse as a little confession of tenderness, how much loving someone else can make you into a different person. Throughout the second verse, I wanted a tonal shift into, ‘oh you made me love you, and then you feel guilty about making me feel like that’. At the end of the day, admitting that we’d both want to be next to each other.”

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“I really drew on experiences of first love, and teenagehood,” Forest shares about the new single. “I wanted it to feel like looking back on a memory that was beautiful at the time, but has been overshadowed by sadness or loneliness. There’s also a sense of juxtaposition in womanhood I wanted to explore. The dichotomy between being pure and sexual, naïve and all knowing, and of course whore and savior. For a formative part of my life, I felt in the middle of it all, in a tug of war trying to be everything all at once.”

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“”Prosthetic Stars’ was one of the first real songs I wrote when I moved to Los Angeles,” Forest explains. “At the time, I was fresh off my party months and wanted more. Around that time, I realized the person I was seeing at the time was just a different type of distraction. In that moment, there’s no way I could have found love in another person. It’s a lot about throwing yourself into things that don’t mean much, jumping into the pool and then wondering why you’re treading water.”

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