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March 9th, 2009 8:09am

Walk Into The Future


Micachu & The Shapes “Calculator”

Micachu’s music tends to be rough and jumpy, but her voice is cool and calm, providing a smooth center for arrangements that tend to emphasize odd textural contrasts and jagged edges. This isn’t to say that she seems aloof or distant. More often than not, her vocals come across as polite but informal, and rather intimate in the context of production values that can err on the side of sounding like inspired demos sprung fully formed from her unconscious mind. “Calculator,” one of the most immediately ingratiating and pop-oriented tracks on her debut the Shapes, is built upon a nervous, jaunty rhythm, but her amiable, androgynous voice evens out the tone so that the anxiety is downplayed in favor of emphasizing the tune’s more jovial and level-headed qualities. The song feels mature and self-assured, but not in a dull sort of way — if anything, Micachu has a way of making emotional stability sound complicated and exciting, perhaps because the music always has a tension implying that it could all come falling apart with one false move.

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