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TRACK OF THE DAY: Lone Ranger

WHO: 21-year old Guildhall School of Music and Drama pupil Mica Levi – one woman with skill sets, seemingly, of a small country.

WHAT: The confounding sound of ten different records being played at once as a wormhole in time opens.

THE HYPE: ‘This is something entirely different’ - Noize Makes Enemies.

WE SAY: See, here’s the thing about art mixing with music. Musicians who can display a knowledge of fine art is nice and all that, but that doesn’t necessarily make what they do anything artistically above something created by a prole.

A better indication of when something’s art is when some schmuck gets all uppy and says "my kid could do that" - and that’s one reason why Lone Ranger is more valid than 12 Franz Ferdinands doing conceptualist installations round Charles Saatchi’s house. Clumsy-sounding, primitivist and a bit crappy it is, but it’s also unmistakably raw.

As she’s a classically trained composer who happens to have a taste for grime, you have to give it more than one dismissive hearing. Lone Ranger craftily works up a whimsical six-note vocal loop and a 19th century-sounding guitar riff over Matthew Herbert’s groomed but discordant beats, resulting in something approaching a transfixing Aphex Twin lullaby. It’s easy on the ear, yet bludgeoning at the same time. It does your head in while rubbing it better. You’ll struggle to work out whether you hate it more than like it. It’ll stick with you though whatever.

To further prove she’s not mucking about with this music lark, Mica’s written a symphony that was recently performed by The Royal Philarmonic. Oh, and she’s also knocked up the Filthy Friends mixtape, a compilation which features some of her earlier fiddlings with grime.

If we could use her in stem cell talent research, we could possibly have the answer to the X Factor factory line problem.

IF YOU ONLY NEED TO KNOW ONE THING: Live performances with her band The Shapes tend to be something out of leftfield. Expect hoover solos.

WHERE CAN I GET MY HANDS ON IT: Lone Ranger is out now on Accidental Records. Micachu can also be seen at The Stag And Dagger festival in Shoreditch Tonight (May 14, 2008).

FIND MORE: www.myspace.com/micayomusic

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