Never
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."
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.
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.
Mica Levi, purveyor of perplexing avante-garde pop inexplicably reminds me of a pocket size Ian Dury; maybe that’s due to her fearlessness?
Mica Levi's strange, clattering pop cacophony is familiar from her 2009 debut, but still sounds like nobody else, writes <strong>Maddy Costa</strong>