Studying at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and being commissioned to write an orchestral piece for the London Philharmonic, twenty-one year-old Mica Levi off-sets the rigors of academic training with her left-field alter-ego Micachu. Lifting inspiration for the UK's thriving grime and garage scenes, she as comfortable looping beats and releasing her own grime mixtape as with the down-tuning of a viola. On her debut full-length, Jewellery, she reveals a dizzying set of hyperactive songs that fringe on noisy chaotic fun yet retain a remarkably listenable heart. "Lips" plunder a Bhangra guitar lick for its opening before its garage rock meets circuit board freakout chorus. The minute and a half "Floor" shows Micachu at her most reserved- her guitar and electronic, blip-filled backdrop that resembles her producers Matthew Herbert's own work. If you can joyfully recall the sonic whimsy of the Fiery Furnances or the sneering jangle of The Fall, you may have a new friend in Micachu.
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