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8.5
79598
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Both challenging and engrossing
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8.0
79599
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
Collaborative eccentricity that sounds like nothing else
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8.0
79601
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
Micachu And The Shapes’ don’t need a fancy blueprint to bring something special to life
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8.0
79604
8.0 |
The FT
The rudimentary ingredients are deployed imaginatively
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8.0
79657
8.0 |
Mojo
Head-long kitchen sink pop. Print edition only
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8.0
79659
8.0 |
Uncut
Playful brilliance. Print edition only
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8.0
79779
8.0 |
musicOMH
Everything Levi does seems calculated to appear off the cuff, uninhibited and instinctive, but there is plenty of evidence of a strong compositional mind at work
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8.0
79807
8.0 |
The Quietus
For the very most part the sublime impulse that permeates Good Sad Happy Sad reigns supreme
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8.0
79915
8.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Good Sad Happy Bad is ultimately an optimistic record; it tries to bring out the positive in some of the most negative sounds around
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7.0
79605
7.0 |
The Music
They totally rip up the rule book and defiantly put it all back together on their own highly original and instinctively musical terms
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6.9
80138
6.9 |
Pitchfork
The combination of the scattered arrangements and Levi’s ruminations on sadness shrewdly underline the topsy-turvy feeling suggested by the title
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6.2
79602
6.2 |
Paste Magazine
A collection of intriguing sketches that might have been developed into a record; instead, they’re left to suffer in demo-like ambiguity
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6.0
79630
6.0 |
DIY
Taken as a normal album, ‘Good Sad Happy Bad’ makes about as much sense as trying to chop down a tree with a satsuma. Then again, Micachu and the Shapes don’t ‘do’ normal
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6.0
79658
6.0 |
Q
It's shattered state of mind presents an irresistible challenge. Print edition only
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6.0
79805
6.0 |
No Ripcord
In trying to simulate a more human identity, Levi apparently forgot that her alluring alien-ness is precisely what made her so uniquely idiosyncratic in the first place
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5.8
79603
5.8 |
Consequence Of Sound
On its own, it hits a note too lethargic and too muted to stick the way Levi’s past work has done
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5.0
79600
5.0 |
Loud And Quiet
There’s something about the notion of her returning to the Shapes that smacks of obligation if you think about it too much
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4.0
80050
4.0 |
Gig Soup
Micachu and the Shapes rush through thirteen songs in little over half an hour, with not a single one lingering in the memory
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4.0
80533
4.0 |
The Observer
Feels more shapeless and, as a result, more frustrating
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2.5
80219
2.5 |
Earbuddy
Mostly it's just bad....very bad
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