Muchuu are girl/boy duo Milky and George. That sounds like a kids' cartoon about a cow and a farmer. In the case of Muchuu it would be a a cow and a farmer making lovely lo-fi downtempo electro pop.They've got three tracks up at the moment.
1. 'Somebody Tell Me': opens with strings reminiscent of Prokofiev's Peter & The Wolf, before a Dragonette style vocal drops in and then the beats get going and you suddenly think you are in a forest having a little dance with some pixies. Imagine a less scary The Knife and you're on the right lines.
2. 'Adventure We Go': is all sorts of vocoder crazy, but not in a Cher "do you burllieveeeeee in life after looouuuvvvreeeeee" style. It also has a beat, but not in a Cher "strong enough to live without you, strong enough, and I quit crying long enough" style. It also has a flute on it, but not in *insert Cher song featuring a flute* style. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Cher.
3. 'Coral & Shell': is along the lines of I Monsters' 'Daydream In Blue' mixed with the vocal styling of Ellie Goulding (you know when she does that funny thing and screws her face up and then sounds a bit like she has some phlegm in her throat but she swallows it just in time and nice noise comes out).
Pigeon is buzzing up to the eyeballs on Lemsip and cough medicine today (on top of a killer hangover) so you may have to excuse these appalling descriptions of the music and just have a little listen yourself. Here is Somebody Tell Me, complete with a lovely video featuring butterfly chasing:
There's more music on Muchuu's Myspace. We think you will like them.
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