Good Sad Happy Bad
Good Sad Happy Bad toys with a warped minimalism that feels new for Micachu and the Shapes. The record feels intimate and casual, with soft, acoustic guitar and childlike keyboard arrangements. It is their least polished release, but even with the band’s music messily chopped, looped, and jangled, the emotional messages always ring clear.
Mia Levi is back to challenge our notion of what it means to lead a pop group.
Micachu specializes in making music out of bits and pieces of sound that by any conventional standards would be set aside.…
‘Good Sad Happy Bad’ makes about as much sense as trying to chop down a tree with a satsuma.
As they've gained acclaim for the way they teeter between experimental music and indie pop, Micachu & the Shapes haven't made any concessions.
The pop hooks that lurked beneath the experimentalism of the London band’s previous two albums are lost in the jam
Avant-garde art-pop from erstwhile BAFTA nominee. CD new music review by Lisa-Marie Ferla