Micachu and the Shapes/Good Sad Happy Bad After dropping out of university, Micachu and the Shapes signed to
Matthew Herbert and Accidental Records. 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. 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. In March 2016, the band announced on social media that they were changing their name to Good Sad Happy Bad. The band then expanded to a four-piece, adding multi-instrumentalist and producer CJ Calderwood and Raisa Khan becoming the band's lead vocalist. In September 2020, the band announced their return with a new single, "Shades". The track served as the title track to
Shades, the band's fourth studio album and first under the name Good Sad Happy Bad. It was released on 16 October 2020 via Textile Records. Their fifth album,
All Kinds of Days, was released on 8 November 2024.
As a film composer Levi's first major film score was for
Jonathan Glazer's 2013 film
Under the Skin. 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 that they give a symbiotic quality, in which the aural feels inseparable from the visual. 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, and tied with
Jonny Greenwood for Best Music/Score at the 2014 Los Angeles Film Critics Awards. They were also nominated for the 2015
BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. They reunited with Glazer to write the scores for two short films,
The Fall (2019) and
Strasbourg 1518 (2020). In 2023, Levi composed the score for Glazer's fourth feature film
The Zone of Interest. It won the
Soundtrack Award at the
2023 Cannes Film Festival. 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, but lost to
Justin Hurwitz for
La La Land. In 2017, Levi worked with their sister, director Francesca Levi, on the soundtrack to
The Colour of Chips, an experimental film conceived with Colm McAuliffe as part of The Unfilmables project, produced by Live Cinema UK. That same year, Levi scored the
science-fiction film
Marjorie Prime and, in association with musicians
Demdike Stare and
Gruff Rhys, contributed to the soundtrack for artist
Phil Collins'
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels which was screened at the
Manchester International Festival and then broadcast by the
BBC. In 2019, Levi composed the soundtrack for Colombian director
Alejandro Landes's
Monos. In December of that year it was announced they would be writing the score for the dark-comedy thriller film
Zola which premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival in 2020. Later that same year, Levi composed the score for
Mangrove, the first, feature-length episode of
Steve McQueen's
Small Axe series for the
BBC and
Amazon Studios.
Musical collaborations in 2014 Levi is also known for their various collaborations with English singer and songwriter
Tirzah, a close friend they met at Purcell. Levi notably produced the
Devotion (2018),
Colourgrade (2021) and
Trip9love (2023) albums.
Solo works In 2021, Levi released their solo debut album
Ruff Dog. ==Personal life==