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With Ariel Pink appearing in celebrity sad rags, The Guardian streaming Dan Deacon’s latest album and R. Stevie Moore recently releasing a (kind of) ‘best of’, it seems that so-called outsider musicians are increasingly being brought inside the cultural tent, rather than stumbling around in the bushes beyond it. This is no bad thing – all deserve recognition for their commitment to their individual visions – but it does leave something of a gap between ‘bedroom artists whose tracks are only heard by their friends’ and ‘bedroom artists whose tracks are premiered on Pitchfork’.

Keel Her, known at home as Rose Keeler(geddit)-Schäffeler, ticks all the right boxes. Based in Brighton, she takes the prolific output associated with many of her lo-fi forebears to extremes, uploading new tracks onto Soundcloud almost every day. Those tracks range from sweet folky numbers like “With Me Tonight” to semi-tuneless indie-psych splurges, but her exhaustive (and occasionally exhausting) creativity makes her impossible to pigeonhole. Emerging London label Critical Heights are now looking to tap that well of ideas, beginning with a recently released EP, “Prize Catch”.

There is more than a hint of ol’ Ariel and R. Stevie to the record’s twisted pop and technicolour grooves (she even sings “I just wanna be like R. Stevie Moore” on “Robert”), an influence perhaps bought to the fore following collaborations with both over the last year. And while, like them, the idiosyncrasies can sometimes stray into self-indulgence, there’s plenty to suggest she has the song-writing ability to make her the next outsider insider. Keel Her to be featured in Now! or Star magazine before the year is out? Place your bets…