Never

AlbumJul 23 / 201214 songs, 35m 9s
Noise Pop Art Pop Slacker Rock
Popular
7.3 / 10

Mica Levi's second album proper is forged from absence, dissonance, flat surfaces, and sharp edges-- a brave and tricky step down a path that terminates somewhere more elemental and holistic than "experimental pop music."

5 / 10

A record built from a monochrome colour list, only very occasionally allowing itself to break free of the arch and artful into the human and technicolor.

7.3 / 10

You have to respect Mica Levi’s dedication to sheer atonality, like a child trying to see how long she can push two magnets…

Micachu & the Shapes burst onto the scene in 2009 with Jewellery, which fashioned forward-thinking pop from junk-shop sounds, homemade instruments and, above all, a keen sense of mischief.

8 / 10

Mica Levi, purveyor of perplexing avante-garde pop inexplicably reminds me of a pocket size Ian Dury; maybe that’s due to her fearlessness?

6 / 10

9.0 / 10

Mica Levi's strange, clattering pop cacophony is familiar from her 2009 debut, but still sounds like nobody else, writes <strong>Maddy Costa</strong>

Never, Rough Trade ****