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Play   2. Lips Micachu & The Shapes 1:20 £0.79
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Play   5. Curly Teeth Micachu 2:26 £0.79
Play   6. Golden Phone Micachu 2:43 £0.79
Play   7. Ship Micachu 1:54 £0.79
Play   8. Floor Micachu 1:23 £0.79
Play   9. Just In Case Micachu 2:46 £0.79
Play 10. Calculator Micachu & The Shapes 3:08 £0.79
Play 11. Wrong Micachu & The Shapes 3:34 £0.79
Play 12. Turn Me Well Micachu 2:57 £0.79
Play 13. Guts Micachu & The Shapes 2:54 £0.79
Play 14. Hardcore Micachu & The Shapes 1:30 £0.79
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By The Wolf TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
I would appear to have stumbled over this wonderful
album far later than the rest of the listening world!
Better late than never is, however, a fitting adage.

Micachu is Mica Levi and she is joined by The Shapes
(Marc Pell/drums and Raisa Khan/keyboards) here and there.
Much has been made about the "experimental" nature of
these fourteen compositions. I rather feel that Ms Levi's
muse is touched by the spirit of pop than by the deeper
excesses of the contemporary European avante garde.
Some reviewers have also been less than kind about her
voice but I rather like what she does with it. It's
a clipped and cocky instrument with a limited tonal
range but what she lacks in vocal prowess she more than
makes up for with her hugely addictive compositional
style and droll sense of humour.

For goodness sake listen to 'Golden Phone' as soon as
you are able. It bursts out of the speakers with the kind
of joyous sunny optimism which long, hot summers should
all be made of! I defy you not to be drawn in by its
gloriously ribald rhythms and party-time handclaps!

'Eat Your Heart', too, leaps up and down like a pit-bull
terrier on a space hopper. The strangled yodelling vocal
pitched somewhere between George Formby's ukelele innocence
and Tom Wait's down-at-the-waterfront-dive darkness.

Some of the songs are less than two minutes long but still
manage to pack a punch and raise a smile simultaneously.
The sweet little revenge song 'Floor', gritty and grinding
'Lips' and the perky final track 'Hardcore' are three such gems.

'Turn Me Well' introduces us to the contents of Ms Levi's
understairs cupboard. A number of useful household objects
would appear to have been brought creatively into play in
the mix (I'm pretty sure she has found a secondary use for
her vacuum cleaner in the opening bars!) Delightfully barmy!
'Calculator' is as mad as a box of frogs too in the nicest
possible way. It's hard not to warm to the guilessless of it all!

If I had thumbs they'd both be in the air right now for
this splendidly idiosyncratic and unconventional debut!

Highly Recommended.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The best album of 2009 in my opinion. I urge you to listen to it - it will only take 37 minutes of your time! Yes, the tracks are (sometimes infuriatingly) short, especially in these times where a 6 minute-long track is considered standard. But that's pretty much my only misgiving, and that doesn't really count as a criticism. There are a few great ones to dance to (Vulture, Lips, Golden Phone) and a few melodic and lyrical masterpieces (Floor, Turn Me Well) and some lovely sonic experimentation (Eat Your Heart, Curly Teeth). The only track I don't like is the Ship one. The guest "rapper" sounds a little creepy, but that doesn't impinge on the 5 stars that it so rightly deserves.

Oh - and I saw them live. The fact that they're not propped up by technical trickery does not at all compromise their sound. (Some tracks even sound better without all the hoovers and pots and pans and what-not.) And they didn't just play the songs off the album - there are much more corkers to come from these plucky young'uns!)
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Wierd and Briiliant!! 24 Mar 2009
Format:Audio CD
this has to be one of the most individual and brilliant sounding albums i've ever bought!

with its random bleeps and squeels, and an overall chaotic feel, this album may not appeal to everyone. anyone looking for a conventional sounding indie album may find it dissapointing but if your looking for something different, individual and genre shattering, then micachu should be right up your street.

in my opinion there is only one bad track which is "ship", but all of the others are brilliant (despite the fact that they rarely exceed three minutes). particular highlights are "Lips", "Golden Phone" and "Calculator"
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