Blog: SoundsXP

There’s a line of poetry that I still remember from my Latin homework: “as I saw/ so I fell”. The audio equivalent of that feeling occurs when you first hear the four-track EP from Keel Her, a.k.a. Rose Keeler-Schäffeler from Winchester. Keel Her’s experimental bedroom pop is super-lo-fi, barely recorded and ultra distorted but also insanely catchy. Who does she sound like? In the wonderful haze-fest ‘Robert’, she declares “I wanna be R Stevie Moore” and, as well as the godfather of home-recorded outsider music, you can hear the wooze-pop of Wavves and maybe the Vivian [...]