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Micachu and the Shapes revel in making enjoyable noise. Since their relatively conventional-sounding art-pop debut, the band has pushed their experimentation further every new release, from crafting homemade instruments to recording live arrangements alongside orchestras. And now, just a year after releasing her harrowing avant-garde, Mica Levi has returned to her band to release Good Sad Happy Bad.Perhaps in the aftermath of composing a soundtrack for a major motion picture, Levi wanted to bring simplicity back to Micachu, as Good Sad Happy Bad toys with a warped minimalism that feels new even for this band. The record counteracts the fuzzy, almost punk rock energy of their last album, settling for soft, acoustic guitar and childlike keyboard arrangements. Even the production of the record is spare and unedited, with warbled vocals and frequent inclusions of studio chatter on songs like 'Dreaming' and 'Crushed'.The record feels intimate and casual in this unrefined state, but the line between relaxed and lazy is shaky on Good Sad Happy Bad. When all the tinker-toy elements align, it works beautifully, as on 'L.A. Poison' with Levi singing softly about the loneliness of urban life over mechanically looped strumming guitar and a simple kick-drum.
Sounds like a murky, blues-leaning lullaby, as if its keyboards are being played underwater while Levi croons above them. But the off-key, off-tempo energy of tracks like 'Hazes' and 'Relaxing' feel thrown together and messy, even if it was purposeful.The biggest shift here is to be found in Mica Levi’s voice, which is strained and echoed as she sings wearily about bad feelings.
You can barely understand her at times, but Good Sad Happy Bad is fundamentally a gloomy self-help record, with its assurances delivered realistically. 'It’s gonna be okay,' Levi repeats in a chipper, sing-song voice at the end of 'Sad'.
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On 'Thinking It' Raisa Khan relays how she wants to get better at working out and being healthier so she can enjoy her old age. On 'Sea Air', all Levi wants to do is breathe in the ocean air because 'all that crap means nothing to her.' Although Good Sad Happy Bad is certainly the band’s least polished-sounding record, the combination of the scattered arrangements and Levi’s ruminations on sadness shrewdly underline the topsy-turvy feeling suggested by the title.
Even with the band’s music messily chopped, looped, and jangled, the emotional messages always ring clear. 'It’s only suffering,' Levi sings on 'Suffering', her voice suddenly lilting the phrase as the song gains tighter, harder percussion and guitar as the song nears its end.
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'That keeps my conscious clean.'