as consistently great a songwriter as we’ve had this decade, elephant micah’s joe o’connell is always affecting and almost unbelievably right-on, with a subtle vocal delivery, modest home-tracked recording fidelity, and slight country-western touches. which is what makes this 7″ release so intriguing – this is elephant micah interpreting two songs written by friends of his (time and temperature & microwave background), and they are his most recently-recorded works. as expected, elephant micah truly makes these songs his own through no subtle re-interpretation. synth tones, backwards noise guitar, and even a trumpet solo set these songs apart from both their original versions and elephant micah’s past work, and yet joe’s voice and vision comes through as accurate as always. befitting the “recycling” theme of the songs, this black 7″ record comes packaged in discarded 12″ lp sleeves, which have been cut down to 7″ jacket size, and then in-house screenprinted over with the release info. limited edition, hand-numbered to 300… got our hands on a very limited number of these great 7inches usually only available by subscription.
ELEPHANT MICAH ~ IN MIDNIGHT / OCEAN FLOOR ~ 7inch (l'animaux tryst (field) recordings)
ELEPHANT MICAH ~ IN MIDNIGHT / OCEAN FLOOR ~ 7inch (l'animaux tryst (field) recordings)
as consistently great a songwriter as we’ve had this decade, elephant micah’s joe o’connell is always affecting and almost unbelievably right-on, with a subtle vocal delivery, modest home-tracked recording fidelity, and slight country-western touches. which is what makes this 7″ release so intriguing – this is elephant micah interpreting two songs written by friends of his (time and temperature & microwave background), and they are his most recently-recorded works. as expected, elephant micah truly makes these songs his own through no subtle re-interpretation. synth tones, backwards noise guitar, and even a trumpet solo set these songs apart from both their original versions and elephant micah’s past work, and yet joe’s voice and vision comes through as accurate as always. befitting the “recycling” theme of the songs, this black 7″ record comes packaged in discarded 12″ lp sleeves, which have been cut down to 7″ jacket size, and then in-house screenprinted over with the release info. limited edition, hand-numbered to 300… got our hands on a very limited number of these great 7inches usually only available by subscription.