I tend to pretend I’m allergic to the hyperbole so often creamed from the breathless fingers (!) of other hacks - but it’s more the music industry’s constant/regular need to hype the undeserving that really alienates me; the paper-thin and long-prolonged fake orgasm of the ad campaign, once removed. So many ‘best new bands’… So much ‘download this’…

But anyway, ostentatious musings aside, the reason I’m writing you today is to do all of that re: Micachu (pictured above) who makes radically dreamy stuff as a grimish mixtape producer, plays it live with her band, The Shapes, and lobs compositions into the grateful/confused arms of the London Philharmonic.

As you’ll soon see, I made her ‘Lone Ranger’ my single of the month in May’s issue. That led me to download her free ‘Filthy Friends’ mixtape. And, having given the fifty-minute beast headspace at least three times, this is the most exclamation-pointy I’ve been about a new artist since Marnie Stern. Maverick chimera!

Find it here. Download it for free. Thank her, not me.