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Apr 11, 2011It may only be a stopgap before the official follow-up to Jewellery, but like all the best mixtapes, it's a telling insight into its creator's unconventional mind.
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Apr 11, 2011An expansive work that fills no niche.
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Apr 11, 2011A small and totally unpolished gem, sparkling and anti-lapidary.
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MojoMay 18, 2011From captivatingly woozy opener State Of new York to the languid euphoria of Everything, this challenging but addictive record cocoons the listener in chloroformed candy floss. [May 2011, p.109]
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Apr 11, 2011Mica's choppin' and screwin' attempt at repackaging its intelligence and emotion makes it something fresh that you can feel. Drink up.
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Apr 11, 2011As it is, it feels like dead patches make up almost half of Chopped & Screwed. Shelve it next to the Knife's Tomorrow, in a Year as an effort that hearteningly shows an inspired artist staking out bold terrain, but one that only fitfully delivers the impact of the artist's previous, pop-focused work.
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Apr 11, 2011Chopped gives a thrilling, real-time glimpse into one of indie's true adventurers creating her legacy on the fly.
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Apr 11, 2011For a few songs the dissonant clatter of Micachu's debut album, "Jewellery," gets transferred to grunting strings and the band's homemade instruments, but most of the new music is slower and spookier, with sliding, wavering massed strings and a sulky, gathering, finely orchestrated paranoia.
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UncutApr 13, 2011A discordant, but strangely beautiful, experiment from the outer fringes of pop. [May 2011, p.93]