We Are Jeneric is a (mainly) two-piece bedroom folk-pop outfit made up of Jen & Eric (O'Connor and Krans, respectively) of Altamont, New York. The two live and work out of Jen's haunted 19th-century farmhouse, which provides the material for their intimate and irreverent songs, recorded with the help of members of Albany, New York's B3nson Collective, which they helped to form in the middle of the last decade.

Animals Are People Too is the result of two people looking out at the whole world from behind the plants in their back garden. As the title suggests, it sees a range of human drama play out in the lives of the animals Jen and Eric have met in their day-to-day. From the charming, Graceland-inspired "Hey Mama Oriole, Over Here It's Me," to the genuinely hilarious wacked-out jangle "Sir Charles the II," (about a gardener's feelings, equal measures responsibility and contempt, for a procreationally-gifted woodchuck) — O'Connor and Krans collect everyday events between household chores and hone them in living room concerts and campfire sessions. One needs only listen to the most haunting track, "Murder of Crows" to find that the two are using what they have to make sense of their… read more »