Thursday, August 6th, 2015

Micachu & the Shapes – Oh Baby

I was expecting a triangle solo though.


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Micha Cavaseno: It doesn’t matter how many times you play dub-hell with it, or if you have a vocal that’s so unnatural its bound to get Beefheartian references all over the stratosphere in describing it. A minimal groove boring rock song is still just another boring rock song.
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Katherine St Asaph: Sounds like a Bond theme performed by toddlers gargling hydrochloric acid.
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Alfred Soto: I’m not sure what’s going on here. Homemade beats out of a Tom Waits record while a scratchy vocal sings a faint blues melody. 
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David Sheffieck: It’s years after Jewellery and I’ve still yet to hear someone who approaches music with the same radical, fractured, charged perspective that Micachu does. The vocal sounds like it was recorded via a walkie-talkie intercepted by a flying saucer, the percussion like it wasn’t so much recorded as called forth from the ocean floor. That the song is a earworm nonetheless should be regarded as a minor miracle, but she makes it sound easy.
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Edward Okulicz: Like the earliest sketch of a song, captured from about three rooms away on an old tape recorder.
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Iain Mew: A mood in search of something, anything, to make it stick. It’s almost impressive in its development of the anti-hook.
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Thomas Inskeep: As a 44-year-old, 20 years out of college, when I think of college rock nowadays, this is the kind of thing I think of, in a good way. “Oh Baby” is sparse, oddly sung, angular, and barely rock. It’s kind of barely music, and I like that about it.
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One Response to “Micachu & the Shapes – Oh Baby”

  1. Edward: agreed, and that’s part of why I like it! :)