Good Sad Happy Bad Micachu And The Shapes SKU: RTRADLP742 Barcode: 883870074216 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rough Trade Released Date: 8th September 2015 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Micachu & 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 the band 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. In the years since the band’s last work together Mica Levi has been the youngest person ever to be an Artist In Residence at The Southbank Centre and her star in the world of modern composition has also risen, largely as a result of her work on Jonathan Glazer’s standout 2014 film ‘Under The Skin’, whose eerie depth is due in part to Levi’s precise, otherworldly score, for which she won a European Film Award and was nominated for a BAFTA. Glazer contacted Levi in 2012, after music supervisor Peter Raeburn played him part of ‘Chopped & Screwed’, Micachu And The Shapes’ 2011 live collaboration with the London Sinfonietta, which saw her uniquely combine her background in classical music with her passion for hip hop and self-made instruments. Speaking to Pitchfork, Glazer remembers: “[Music supervisor Peter Raeburn] played me some [known] film composers, but I thought this film would require a new voice. I heard ten seconds of [‘Chopped & Screwed’] and said, ‘Stop the tape, use that.’” While she continues to work on composition projects, Levi welcomes a return to the more ‘social, physical’ experience of being in a touring band. “Staggeringly inventive, madly capricious and utterly unpredictable: this is pop for the 2010s” – Dazed & Confused “Micachu’s a rare talent, heaven-sent” – The Quietus “A unique talent” – Q “Micachu And The Shapes could stand among this generation’s most lauded pop purveyors.” – Pitchfork Artist Micachu And The Shapes Genre Rock And Pop Label Rough Trade Buying Options 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Sad Relaxing Dreaming Sea Air Thinking It Crushed Oh Baby Waiting Unity Peach LA Poison Hazes Suffering Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Jennie Abrahamson Gemini Gemini Rock And Pop | How Sweet The Sound | 1LP Released 30th March 2015 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jennie Abrahamson Gemini Gemini £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: How Sweet The Sound SKU: HSTSVIN005 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th March 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rory Gallagher Kickback City (plus comic book) Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP, Includes CD Released 4th November 2013 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rory Gallagher Kickback City (plus comic book) £32.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP927 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Includes CD Released Date: 4th November 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gorillaz Demon Days Rock And Pop | Parlophone | 2LP, Picture Disc Released 3rd October 2016 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gorillaz Demon Days £29.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Parlophone SKU: 0190295423681 Formats: 2LP, Picture Disc Released Date: 3rd October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Everything Is Recorded Close But Not Quite Rock And Pop | XL Recordings | 1LP, EP/Mini Album Released 30th June 2017 £8.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Everything Is Recorded Close But Not Quite £8.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: XL Recordings SKU: XLT869 Formats: 1LP, EP/Mini Album Released Date: 30th June 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View DMAs DMAs Rock And Pop | Infectious | 1LP Released 18th May 2015 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders DMAs DMAs £13.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Infectious SKU: INFECT219LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 18th May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Aerosmith Night In The Ruts Rock And Pop | UMR | 180g, 1LP Released 26th May 2023 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Aerosmith Night In The Ruts £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMR SKU: 5524865 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 26th May 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Simon & Garfunkel Parsley Sage Rosemary And Thyme Rock And Pop | Sundazed | 180g, 1LP Released 25th July 2016 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Simon & Garfunkel Parsley Sage Rosemary And Thyme £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sundazed SKU: SUNDAZEDLP5232 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 25th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Elvis Presley Viva Elvis Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 6th December 2010 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Elvis Presley Viva Elvis £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP233 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 6th December 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dusty Springfield Ooooooweeee! 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