Music
I am one half of slowcore songwriting duo forestfloor. We make thoughtful acoustic music with nods towards Bon Iver, Adrianne Lenker, and Radiohead. We like to play intimate local gigs, or just skulk around in the woods:
My music career highlights prior to forestfloor go something like this:
- Bird Bones - a three piece folk/ post-rock band formed while at art school in Kingston, with Steve James of Semble on piano and Daniel Best of Union Sound Set on drums. A short-lived experiment which nonetheless culminated in a Glastonbury Festival performance in 2008.
- Solo bedroom producer - after moving back to Folkestone I self-produced many EPs and translated my brooding, atmospheric compositions to the stage using live-looping techniques.
- Boo, Forever - a collaborative project with songwriters Si Norton, Ben Fletcher, Natalie Evans and Rebecca Aimi. I produced our eponymous album, released on vinyl in 2013 by Something Something Records.
- Minor Planet - my rap alter ego. I made a playful alternative hip-hop album and shot some music videos with local filmmaker Joel Snowman, capturing a common experience of our home town from the fringes.
I keep an online archive of my lyrics here.
"The blending of acoustic folk’s soft touch and the cold, processed sound of electronic production is something that has been tried a fair amount but has rarely clicked into place. Kent based Boo, Forever can count themselves amongst the minority that have succeeded. Their self-titled debut draws from the likes of Tuung, Bon Iver et al that have a fellow penchant for mixing the new and the old, resulting in something that is constantly intruiging and whose layers of experimentation are easy to lose one’s self in."
Will Moss – Artrocker Mag
