Vague Tidings Elephant Micah SKU: WV214LP Barcode: 0843563130865 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Western Vinyl Released Date: 9th April 2021 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info R.I.Y.L. Jason Molina, Bonnie Prince Billy, Bill Callahan, Damien Jurado. Limited edition LP format with extra heavy textured jackets and metallic silver ink. LP includes 12” square insert with lyrics and images of the artist, and download. The raw inspiration for Vague Tidings came from a 2006 DIY tour of the 49th state. It was a trip that went off the beaten path sometimes a bit too far for comfort. Now, over a decade later, listeners find Joe O’Connell aka Elephant Micah stationed at a creaky spinet piano, singing about the Alaskan sky. Throughout, his lyrics take a new angle on a pet theme: human encounters with the natural world. Vague Tidings places these encounters in the American West and, at times, in its sci-fi corollary, outer space. Its imagery draws from the allure of Alaska, the idea of Western prosperity, and the human relationship to wilderness more broadly. Often, O’Connell sings about the goal of capturing and commodifying nature. In poetic sketches of resource extraction industries and dark sky tourism, frontier lust runs amok. Pipelines catch fire and stars disappear, all to the tune of a stark, uncanny Americana. Vague Tidings is a sustained, hallucinatory rendering of this theme. In style, its eight songs follow a switchback path between foggy incantations and mountain anthems. Made with a small cohort of acoustic instrumentalists, the record is rough hewn, but easy on the ears. To put Vague Tidings down on tape, O’Connell assembled some of his favorite musicians in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina area, where he’s lived since 2015: Libby Rodenbough (Mipso) bows and plucks a detuned fiddle, Matt Douglas (Mountain Goats) breathes life into various woodwinds, and Matt O’Connell (Lean Year) sets the pace on a two-piece drum set. Their loose, imaginative playing pushes Vague Tidings beyond the singer-songwriter genre into something richer in texture. Ultimately, this is foreboding but spacious music, with plenty of room for reconsidering life on earth. “echoes Will Oldham, Bon Iver and Low, but ultimately is O’Connell’s own, very special thing.” UNCUT. “Lovely songs…” MOJO. “Big Time Fan Of Elephant Micah!!! This is beautiful work” Ryley Walker. Artist Elephant Micah Genre Americana / Country Label Western Vinyl Buying Options 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings 01 Glacier Advisors 02 Eastern Callers 03 Pipe Diversions Bored Auroras 04 The Cantor The Labrador 05 Return to the Abandoned Observatory 06 From Anti Gravity 07 Occidental Blue 08 Vague Tidings Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Elephant Micah and more from Americana / Country View Product Quick View Elephant Micah Genericana Americana / Country | Western Vinyl | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 27th July 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Elephant Micah Genericana £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Western Vinyl SKU: WV174LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Elephant Micah Genericana – Indies Only Americana / Country | Western Vinyl | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 27th July 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Elephant Micah Genericana – Indies Only £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Western Vinyl SKU: WV174LPC1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lucero When You Found Me Americana / Country | Liberty & Lament | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 29th January 2021 £16.00 - 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