(Rough Trade)
Micachu and the Shapes are a young London trio who released a brilliantly odd album called Jewellery two years ago. It was a rough diamond: frenetic, patchwork and catchy as hell when it wanted to be. This live album, recorded with the London Sinfonietta last May using some of frontwoman Mica Levi's homemade instruments, is even more unpolished and odd. Distressed strings lend the album a woozy, paranoid feel ? apt, given that it's a homage to the "chopping and screwing" hip-hop technique that grew up in early-90s Houston around the excessive consumption of codeine-heavy cough syrup. This strange concoction slowly, disconcertingly, hooks you in.
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