New Album Releases: GOOD SAD HAPPY BAD (Micachu & The Shapes)

Artist
Micachu & The Shapes

Genre:
Alternative/Indie Rock

Total Time:
32:16

Record Label:
Rough Trade Records

Format:
CD, MP3, Vinyl

Release Date
September 11, 2015

Order links, audio samples and track list after the jump.

Product Description: Micachu & The Shapes’ return, three years after the release of their last record, 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 Bell had an Eiderol field recorder in hand, and unbeknownst to his bandmates, recorded the whole session; Bell, Mica Levi, and Raisa Khan were so enamored of those off-the-cuff audio experiments that they became the underpinnings of a new record. With one listen, it’s easy to see why. Good Sad Happy Bad maintains the avant-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. With Levi’s profile enhanced by her reputation as one of modern composition’s great young lights, and the swarm of press now surrounding whatever she does, we can expect a new horde of fans to embrace the complexity behind the simplicity of their latest, and best, album.

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•  Buy the Album from iTunes • 
•  Buy the MP3 from Amazon.com • 
•  Buy the CD from Amazon.com • 
•  Buy the Vinyl from Amazon.com • 

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TRACK LIST:

1. Sad

2. Relaxing

3. Dreaming

4. Sea Air

5. Thinking It

6. Crushed

7. O Baby

8. Waiting

9. Unity

10. Peach

11. LA Poison

12. Hazes

13. Suffering

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