Stream: Son of Stan, ‘The Lady That’s Around Me’

Kevin Bronson on November 7th, 2014

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L.A.-based Texan Jordan Richardson has a voracious appetite for everything – he drummed for multifarious indie-rockers Oliver Future when he first moved here eight or so years ago, then joined up with Ben Harper for three releases, including Harper’s Grammy-winning collaboration with veteran blues man Charlie Musselwhite, “Get Up!” Also a session drummer, Richardson struck out on his own in 2012 as Son of Stan, debuting with an ode to a broken-down car (“Corsica”) and going on to tackle even more whimsical synth-rock things on last fall’s “Divorce Pop.” (Oh, and he has covered Al B. Sure with Jenny O.) He chews up additional musical scenery on Son of Stan’s new “Georgia” EP, which again projects Richardson as a savant unleashing his inner party animal. We imagine “The Lady That’s Around Me” as synching with a scene of teen high jinx in a John Hughes movie, and “Loseyomind” boogies with a smirking sense of humor that’s hard to hate. Richardson could probably be behind the kit somewhere, making jaws drop (because he can), but instead he’s here, spending time in the studio with producer Adam Lasus (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah), playing all the instruments himself and having fun.

||| Stream: “The Lady That’s Around Me” and “Feel Her Design”