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Micachu and The Shapes – Good Sad Happy Bad LP

Smekkleysa — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 18:13:08 +0000

Micachu and The Shapes’ return, three years after the release of their last record ‘Never’, is almost an accident: the trio of friends decided to rehearse in an East London studio, and found themselves immersed into an hours-long jam. Drummer Marc Pell had an Edirol field recorder in hand, and unbeknownst to his bandmates, recorded the whole session; Pell, Mica Levi, and Raisa Khan were so enamored of those off-the-cuff audio experiments that they became the underpinnings of a new record. “For me it’s the most free we have been,” Levi explains. Rather than showing up to the studio with songs written out, the trio started with a collaborative improvisation, from which Levi chose sections to develop into songs, writing lyrics to the entire record “non-stop, in one avalanche.” With one listen, it’s easy to hear why they loved the tracks. ‘Good Sad Happy Bad’ maintains the experimental-pop sensibility the band has brought to previous efforts, combining the lightness and bounce of their best singles with the sonic textures of field recordings, industrial effects alongside straightforward instrumentation. Levi’s affected vocals eschew easily readable emotional tone, instead relying on quixotic lyricism, repetition, and immersion into the song’s landscape, to evoke warmly – rather than show – the sentiments underpinning the songs. The record’s irrepressible energy, across both the upbeat and a handful of sadder songs, seems to be a direct result of the live recording process. “Jams are really quite a healthy release, it’s a way of getting stuff out without consciously thinking about it or making decisions,” says Khan. Conversely, because the band worked out the final mixes together over a number of months – rather than in a traditional, multi-track studio over a shorter period – Pell found a new degree of creativity. “I think the best drum part I have ever written is the stick-clicking at the beginning of ‘Peach’ – a moment, he explains, that he wouldn’t have been able to notice without the luxury of seeing the recorded tracks as more than simply songs, but as collections of sonic ideas.LP – With Download.

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Mica Levi – Zola (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Smekkleysa — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:49:53 +0000

1	Mica Levi & Taylour Paige–	Wanna Hear A Story?
A2	Mica Levi & Riley Keough*–	Met This White Bitch
A3	Mica Levi–	Vibing
A4	Mica Levi–	Exchange Numbers
A5	Mica Levi–	Next Day
A6	Mica Levi & Riley Keough*–	Let’s Go
A7	Mica Levi–	Tampa
A8	Mica Levi–	Florida
A9	Mica Levi & TS Madison–	Friday
A10	Mica Levi–	Full Nude
A11	Mica Levi & Taylour Paige–	Pasties & Boy Shorts
A12	Mica Levi–	What Y’all Make
A13	Mica Levi–	Wanna Trap
A14	Mica Levi–	Mind Blown
A15	Mica Levi & Taylour Paige–	A Mess
A16	Mica Levi & Taylour Paige–	Thousands
A17	Mica Levi & Riley Keough* & Nick Braun (3)–	Leave A Message
A18	Mica Levi–	Do It Right
A19	Mica Levi–	500
B20	Mica Levi–	Dudes
B21	Mica Levi–	That Was It
B22	Mica Levi–	Here We Go
B23	Mica Levi & Taylour Paige–	WTF Again
B24	Mica Levi–	Lost In The Sauce
B25	Mica Levi–	Lost In The Game
B26	Mica Levi–	DAMNNNNNNNNNNNNN
B27	Mica Levi–	First Client Calls
B28	Mica Levi–	Handgun
B29	Mica Levi–	Trusting u
B30	Mica Levi–	Goes Left
B31	Mica Levi & Colman Domingo–	Incall
B32	Mica Levi–	I Was Out
B33	Mica Levi–	Mannn
B34	Mica Levi–	Take Off
B35	Mica Levi–	Movie Shit
B36	Mica Levi–	Almost Over
B37	Mica Levi–	Florida Murder

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Björk- Lionsong Remix by Mica Levi Kareokieijd

Benedikt Reynisson — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 16:23:53 +0000

Lionsong Remix by Mica Levi Kareokieijd

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