Micachu

Levi formed a band called Micachu and the Shapes, which included Raisa Khan on keyboards and Marc Pell on drums. They signed to Accidental Records. With the Shapes, Levi's focus has been on experimental pop music. Most of this music prominently features an acoustic half-guitar with various non-standard tunings, extensive distortion, and use of noise and found-object elements, as well as occasionally unusual time signatures. Despite these experimental leanings, the artist categorizes their output with the Shapes as pop music.

Their debut album, Jewellery, produced with influential electronic musician Matthew Herbert, was recorded around Mica's composition studies at Guildhall School. Advance copies of the record reached the press in early 2009, and generated positive feedback. In the wake of this growing buzz, Micachu and the Shapes were signed to Rough Trade,[17] who released Jewellery on 9 March 2009. Drowned in Sound consequently hailed the record as "thrillingly improbable pop made by a grade-A maverick."[18]

In 2009, the band received a grant from the PRS for Music Foundation.[19]

Micachu and the Shapes toured widely throughout the UK in 2008, including performances at Bestival and V Festival. The band played in the US at the CMJ Music Marathon in New York City and SXSW in Austin, Texas. They also performed on the Main Stage of the Siren Music Festival at Coney Island in Brooklyn in July 2009. Touring continued throughout Europe and North America in the summer and fall of 2009.[20] In Spring of 2010, Micachu and the Shapes supported Spoon on tour throughout North America.

The band performed with the London Sinfonietta at Kings Place, London in May 2010 and in March 2011 released the live recording as the album "Chopped and Screwed".[21] Unlike their previous effort, the recording largely avoids pop sensibilities in favor of a slower, hip-hop indebted style and repetitive, discordant string arrangements. The band were chosen by Animal Collective to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that they curated in May 2011 in Minehead, England.[22]

The follow-up to their debut, Never, was released on 23 July 2012.

The band released the album Good Sad Happy Bad on 11 September 2015.[23][24] In March 2016, the band announced on social media that they were changing their name to Good Sad Happy Bad.[25][26] The band then expanded to a four-piece, adding multi-instrumentalist & producer CJ Calderwood and Raisa Khan leading the band's vocals and songs.

In September 2020, the band announced their return with a new single, "Shades." The track serves as the title track to Shades, the band's fourth studio album and first under the name Good Sad Happy Bad. It is set for release on October 16 via Textile Records.[27]

• "Golden Phone" (2008)
• "Lips" (2009)
• "Turn Me Well" (2009)
• "I'm Not Dancing" (2013) (with Tirzah)
• "No Romance" (2014) (with Tirzah)
• "Thinking of You" (2015) (with Nozinja, Tirzah and Mumdance)
• "Make It Up" (2015) (with Tirzah)
• "Taz and May Vids" (2016) (with Tirzah and Brother May)
• "Looking Up at the Sun / Mash One" (2016) (with Good Sad Happy Bad)
• "Clothes Wear Me" (2016) (with KEVIN)
• "Delete Beach" (2017)
• "Obviously" (2018) (with Tirzah as Taz & Meeks)

• Speech Debelle - "Better Days" (2009)
• Babyfather - "God Hour" (2016)
• Arca - "Think Of" and "Baby Doll" (2016)
• Mount Kimbie - "Marilyn" (2017)