Mica Levi

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 was experimental pop music. Most of the music prominently featured 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 electronic musician Matthew Herbert, was recorded around Levi's composition studies at Guildhall School. In the wake of growing buzz, Micachu and the Shapes were signed to Rough Trade,[11] which released Jewellery on 9 March 2009 to critical praise. 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.[12] The follow-up to their debut, Never, was released on 23 July 2012. The band then released the album Good Sad Happy Bad on 11 September 2015.[13][14]

In March 2016, the band announced on social media that they were changing their name to Good Sad Happy Bad.[15][16] The band then expanded to a four-piece, adding multi-instrumentalist and producer CJ Calderwood and Raisa Khan becoming the band's lead vocalist.

Levi's first major film score was for Jonathan Glazer's 2014 film Under the Skin.[17] The film is based on the novel of the same name by Michel Faber and stars Scarlett Johansson. Produced at age 26 and created in collaboration with Glazer, Levi's film score themes are so tightly woven into the film[18] that they give a symbiotic quality, in which the aural feels inseparable from the visual.[19] The score was widely acclaimed for pushing the boundaries of music and sound design and Levi was nominated for multiple awards. They won Best Composer at the 2014 European Film Awards,[20] and tied with Jonny Greenwood for Best Music/Score at the 2014 Los Angeles Film Critics Awards.[21] They were also nominated for the 2015 BAFTA Award for Best Film Music.[22]

In 2016, Levi completed their second major film score, for Pablo Larraín's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis biopic Jackie.[23] Larraín had been a juror at the 2013 Venice Film Festival, and thought that Under the Skin deserved a film score prize. Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, also on the jury, was enthralled by Levi's bold score for the film, and he and Larraín spoke passionately of their accomplishment,[19] which led to the collaboration on Jackie. Levi was nominated for Best Original Score at the 89th Academy Awards[24] but lost to Justin Hurwitz for La La Land.

Levi contributed to the 2017 science-fiction film Marjorie Prime and their third major film score was for the 2019 film Monos. In December 2019, it was announced they would be writing the score for the dark-comedy thriller film Zola.

In 2020 Levi composed the score for Mangrove, the first, feature-length episode of Steve McQueen's Small Axe series for the BBC/Amazon.[25]

In 2023 Levi composed the score for The Zone of Interest, directed by Jonathan Glazer. It won the Soundtrack Award at the Cannes Film Festival.[26]

• "Taz and May Vids" (2016) (with Tirzah and Brother May)
• "Clothes Wear Me" (2016) (with KEVIN)
• "Delete Beach" (2017)
• "Obviously" (2018) (with Tirzah as Taz & Meeks)
• "Skunk Boy." (2022)

• Speech Debelle - "Better Days" (2009)
• Babyfather - "God Hour" (2016)
• Arca - "Think Of" and "Baby Doll" (2016)
• Mount Kimbie - "Marilyn" (2017)
• Stubborn - Mid (2020)
• Bar Italia - letting go makes it stay (2021)