Jewellery

Micachu | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 7, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rough Trade Us
• ASIN: B001R3YJ10
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,169 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a strange and unique CD, April 16, 2009

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E. Williams "music, movie, food, and beer lover" (St Pete, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jewellery (Audio CD)

Part electro-pop, part indie rock, part hip-hop and part Tom Waits is the best description I can think of. What a unique sound from the UK, and the woman is a classical composition student! "Golden Phone" is my new favorite song, but there are plenty of great tracks here to go around. Most are on the short side, my only complaint. This is 3-person group, but you wouldn't know that listening to this CD, as there are so many layers and sounds. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly, and sometimes slammin with a hot beat, this one bears repeat listening to uncover all the subtleties (and understand the lyrics through Mica's thick accent!). Like Fiery Furnaces, the singer's vocal talent isn't the focus, and some might not be able to get past it. Check it out, you'll be one of their early fans when they make it big!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If Beck mated with Santigold?!, May 14, 2009

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Stimey (Olympia, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jewellery (Audio CD)

I was flipping through stations and heard a snipet of Micachu's 'Eat Your Heart' song #4 from her new cd Jewellery...looked her up and bought the cd on lark and...SCORE!!! This little lady is creative as hell and really reminds me of a younger Beck...from his earlier days. Sure, she attends a prestigious music school and has Bjork as one her fans but these damn quirky songs have a weird way of getting into your head and staying there. The experimental industrial background sounds, goofy and irrelevant lyrics and solid beats all combine to create music well suited to a soundtrack from some future sci-fi flick?! Only complaint is some of the songs and sweet beats are a bit brief...Micachu, you tease me!

4.0 out of 5 stars Bright Neurotic Colors!, May 13, 2011

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Daniel M. Goss "DG" (SF, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jewellery (Audio CD)

It's odd but heartening that an album like this can still find support, other than through self-publishing on the internets. It's imaginative, quirky, offbeat--all those stupid words that critics use to describe something they have little regular contact with, and thus grasp for adequate means of description--and more. Yet, when one strips back the outer veneer of bubble gum, the beating heart of this music has more in common with groups like the Residents, or maybe Wire, circa /154/. There is a kind of dark brooding beneath the easily digestible parts of /Jewelry/, consisting of harsh, atonal noises that, nonetheless, skip along in the same groove as the catchy beats and the disarming cuteness of Levi's singing. Listening to this album the first few times, I was constantly referring back to Mr. Bungle's /Disco Volante/, perhaps a more violent, emotionally unsettling piece of work, but it has many identical impulses as /Jewelry/, in that both attempt to reveal disturbing qualities in familiar musical themes. In fact, I could see this album being a Mike Patton joint, if only it had speed metal breaks and the necessary bent for psychopathy (screaming, babbling, pants pooping, and the like).

If you're an old bastard like myself who grew up with Negativeland, Sonic Youth (pre DGC), Einsterzende Neubauten, Big Black, etc., and can accept that similar world views can exist as well in the sunlight as the darkness, check it out. You might get the feeling that there's some hope for what otherwise looks like overwhelming lameness for current music culture, and whatever "the Kids" are doing to make it interesting.