MIKA - Life In Cartoon Motion (Music On Vinyl)

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First time on vinyl! MIKA's 2007 debut album Life in Cartoon Motion features the smash singles "Grace Kelly", "Relax (Take It Easy)" and "Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)".

Brimming with brightly-hued melody, engaging hooks and a distinct lyrical style that speaks exactly and distinctly of its moment, Mika showcases here for the first time his unique vision. “I grew up listening to every thing from Joan Baez and Dylan, to Serge Gainsbourg and Flamenco. My musical tastes have become more eclectic as I’ve got older, but I’m always going back to great artist songwriters, people who make great records to their own vision.  Prince, Harry Nillson, Elton John, even Michael Jackson.  These people make amazing pop records that couldn’t be performed by anybody else and that’s what I always wanted to do.

Unafraid to stand alone, Mika’s intimate first person and third person storytelling connects with outsiders while subverting the mainstream from within. Whether eulogizing the delights of the larger framed woman on the funk-rock strop of "Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)", condensing modern sexual peccadilloes on the burlesque "Billy Brown", or celebrating the joys of being alive on "Love Today", is a place that pop music is not used to traveling to. “I wrote Love Today when i was happy, really happy.  When you’re on a buzz, you get cocky and you assume that everyone in the world at that time feels the way you do. I often feel like that. So I put it in a song.

"Happy Ending" shows us another side to this multi talented writer, performer, instrumentalist and producer. A huge, inspirational and downright goose-bump-brilliant ballad, "Happy Ending" was written in MIKA’s basement and recorded in London and Los Angeles with a gospel choir.

Heavyweight audiophile vinyl produced by Music on Vinyl in 2018. Includes colour insert.

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