Blog: SoundsXP

Drummer jokes are legendary but some drummers you laugh with rather than at. Stephen Keane drums for Dignan Porch, produces striking artwork under the Chaos vs Cosmos label (including the Porch t-shirts) and releases music as Slushy Guts, whose cassette/ download We’re Not Kids And We’re Not In America is full of smart quips and odd blips. Recorded on Philips tape recorder, apart from the one caught on a phone, it’s experimental, glitchy pop in a Jim O’Rourke vein. Songs are as much about the process of making music as performing a finished piece: Chopin’s ‘Mazurka In [...]