“Despite its title, Joseph O’Connell’s second release for Western Vinyl is his most distinctive release to date, an elegant study of life’s circularity set against a backdrop of slowcore folk and woozy rock.”
“Opening with the hiss of static, the call of gulls and the wash of digital surf, ‘Genericana’, the thirteenth album from songwriter and folklorist Joseph O’Connell under his Elephant Micah name – further explores how we come from influences and what we sound like. Created from ‘devalued or discarded’ gear, the record twists the sound of Americana as it finds new ways of interacting with instrumen”
