Micachu's single: The long and short of it

Lips, by Micachu, might just be the most thrilling single of the year. This, in its entirety, is what it consists of: a scratchy 16-second intro of roughly strummed guitar with seemingly random treble notes scuffed over the top; the main melodic figure repeated four times in around 10 seconds; a verse (or a chorus), sung by Mica Levi (who is Micachu), in which the words seem to have been chosen for rhythmic impact rather than their poetry, which lasts a further 10 seconds; then the melodic figur...

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