Track Listing 1. Vulture - (with The Shapes) 2. Lips - (with The Shapes) 3. Sweetheart 4. Eat Your Heart 5. Curly Teeth 6. Golden Phone 7. Ship - (featuring Man Like Me) 8. Floor 9. Just In Case 10. Calculator - (with The Shapes) 11. Wrong - (with The Shapes) 12. Turn Me Well 13. Guts - (with The Shapes)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Man Like Me | | Producer: | Matthew Herbert, Micachu & The Shapes, Micachu | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes JEWELLERY proves to be an impressive debut from 21-year-old musical wunderkind Mica Levi, aka Micachu. Although the frantic soundscapes and thickly distorted guitar push the album into abstract experimental territory, Levi, with the aid of her backing band the Shapes, manages to make this artfully orchestrated mess catchy. Adding to the delightful chaos are Micachu's garbled, childlike vocals which futher call attention to Micachu & the Shapes as an artistic force to be reckoned with.
Editorial Reviews [I]nsanely disorienting fun. Somewhere among the almost random beats, noises, and odd samples, it even swings and occasionally blindsides you with a striking melody. Spin
4 stars out of 5 -- [With] raggedy strumming, clanking percussion and a symphony of squeaks and buzzes....The guiding force is Levi -- an instant punk heroine... Rolling Stone
4 stars out of 5 -- Her sound is wild steam-punk, a time-bent play between high and low tech, with glitchy beeps and fizzes of synthesizer futurism atop manic junkyard-jam skiffles... Blender
CMJ [A] record of smartly crafted infectious pop melodies and jangly toe-tapping guitars...
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