The first time I checked out recent Rough Trade signing Micachu & the Shapes, I honestly didn’t know what to make of it. To paraphrase Frank, my first instinct was that ‘I never want to hear this again.’ Which was followed immediately by me hitting the repeat button.

So yeah, it took a bit for me to wrap my head around Mica Levi’s unusual musical aesthetic, but the more I listened to it, the more I started to be really excited by what I was hearing. This was some stuff quite literally unlike anything I’d ever heard before. As I say, the closest approximation I can come up with is “like Björk and Blueberry Boat and Bone Machine and Harry Partch, chopped, diced and liquified, then reprocessed, reprogrammed, and ultimately reconstructed, deep in the creative centers of an ADDled Millenial brain.”

Until a week ago, I’d only heard “Lips” and “Golden Phone.” Then I got my full copy of Jewellery, and heard 10 more Micachu songs. And my reaction was: “Wow.”

Jewellery is out 4/7 on Beggars/Rough Trade. We’ve got a full album stream of Jewellery over at MBV.