MICACHU AND THE SHAPES - JEWELLERY (LP)

Micachu And The Shapes Jewellery on Vinyl LP + MP3 Coupon! 

Despite her relative youth, the 21-year old Mica Levi AKA Micachu arrives as something of a Midas touched, Renaissance artist: equally at home writing and producing stunning, experimental pop with the likes of Matthew Herbert, as MCing with friends in various grime collectives and balancing this with her daytime tutorage at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she’s studying composition.

Perhaps the real beauty of Mica’s talent is that she keeps things rough around the edges by design: no polished beats when big fat dirty ones will do, obvious choruses eschewed for intricate yet subtle melodies that grow and grow.

Mica studied violin, viola and composition at the Purcell School before being offered a scholarship to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to study composition. Her talent as a young composer has not gone unnoticed with Mark Anthony Turnage commissioning her to write an orchestral piece for the London Philharmonic Orchestra to be performed at the Royal Festival Hall on April 29th.

For live shows Micachu plays with her band the Shapes: a three-piece fronted by Mica (vocals, guitar, electronics and Hoover), Raisa Kahn (keys) and Marc Pell (drums). Armed with just her beat up, half sized guitar and hidden beneath a mop of hair, Mica’s understated appearance belies her startling musical prowess. Micachu’s Matthew Herbert produced debut LP Jewellery is the aural equivalent of a chameleon: a multi-coloured, multi-layered conflation of ground breaking sounds and ideas.

Micachu And The Shapes Jewellery Track Listing

1. Vulture
2. Lips
3. Sweetheart
4. Eat Your Heart
5. Curley Teeth
6. Golden Phone
7. Ship
8. Floor
9. Just In Case
10. Calculator
11. Wrong
12. Turn Me Well
13. Guts