Electronic folk pop, making use of Lo-fi beats and combining that with soothing organs, selective bleeps and cheap guitars.

national forest's real name is daniel cowley. he comes from reading, but currently resides in manchester. all his early music was made in his spare time using a pc, a crappy guitar, a crappier microphone, some old keyboards and his dad's record player. now he has his own record player, but has had his microphone stolen. after releasing his first record, the 'soda lake' ep, follow-up 12" 'reflex the tempo', a string of 7"s and his eponymous debut the bar was raised somewhat, resulting in second album 'one million', due for release in spring 2006. dan includes among his influences, "nature, dogs, bears, boredom, and lovely ladies!". for more musical influence, give cat power, mum, my bloody valentine, grandaddy, mantronix, grandmaster flash, yo la tengo, max tundra and some now compilations a simultaneous spin and see what you think... in his spare time (between sweeping stairs at the local library and sleeping) dan co-runs kiss my hac [www.myspace.com/kissmyhac], a monthly clubnight for folk who enjoy dancing to kylie, pavement, prince, grime, gabba and bruce springsteen; plays bass in sir yes sir [www.myspace.com/siryessiryessir]; and dreams of one day getting a dog...... Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.