Mica Levi Releases Another New Album, Blue Alibi: Listen

The mercurial pop artist and sometime film composer Mica Levi has self-released their second surprise album in as many months. Blue Alibi, which you can check out below, follows December’s Ruff Dog, which was billed as their debut full-length as a solo artist.

On the new record, Jonatan Leandoer (aka Yung Lean), Coby Sey, Relax Kevin, and Brother May make appearances, while CURL—a London collective featuring Levi, Sey, and Brother May among others—are credited on two tracks. Today, Levi has shared a video for Blue Alibi track “Waves,” also below. It’s directed by Finnbar Porteous and features a collage of slow imagery: dogs, cyclists, birds, and other things and beings. Of the track, Levi wrote in the press release:

This is about our friends Zako and Finn. Finn worked on a pretty troubled off-grid cannabis farm for 3 years in L.A. and then at age 23-24 used the money to buy his own sailing boat. Zako was working for another person helping them on the sailing boat from Cape Ferret to South America. He then met Finn on the docks of a bay in Venezuela where Finn was fixing his new boat. Then they sailed off into the sunset. Finn made me a video for this song.

Mica Levi’s bounty of music in recent years—which also includes work on last year’s Good Sad Happy Bad album Shades—includes scores for films including Monos (“Monk” from the new album is an offcut from the film) and Jackie. Levi also recently scored a short film by the photographer Nan Goldin.

Read more about Levi’s work in “The 50 Best Movie Scores of All Time.”