Play this album LOUD! It's a weird, disturbing and unsettling ride, and the only way you'll make it through is to rock it hard!
Micachu is a brilliant singer/songwriter/Dj/producer and this album showcases her ability to make songs that shouldn't work... well... work? I don't know where else you expected me to go with that sentence. Micachu doesn't construct nice, straightforward songs then scuzz them up to be more "cool", but takes scuzzy elements like crapped-out guitars and nasty keyboards and makes pop songs out of them, layering them with her lovely, if slightly bitter-sounding, voice.
Some songs a more straight-forward than others, such as "Golden Phone" and "Calculator", whereas others are shorter, more trippy affairs, such as "Sweet Heart", which starts with one hook, before breaking into a disparate punk rhythm. There's so much originality here, with twists and turns around every corner and some genuinely brilliant lyrics.
Now, I'm not gunna pretend that this album will be to everybody's tastes, but if you have a sufficiently open mind there's some great little songs here. There are a surprising number of sing-a-long moments and hip-waggling rhythms too, so if you're willing to make the jump from your nice clean world of slick production and narrow-minded marketeering, you might just find that "Jewellery" is actually a real gem.
I'm now going to go lie down after that terrible pun.
Chris/Audio Bigot.
xx
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