If the history of pop music was a quilt, Micachu’s patch would stand out among the rest. With her surprising musical history and knack for disorganizing a typically organized sound, she has made an interesting and sincere project that is hard to ignore.

According to an interview with “Time Out London,” Micachu started as the solo project of Micah Levi, a daughter of musicians from the U.K. Her musical career began relatively early, at the age of four, when her parents introduced her to the viola and violin. Eventually, Levi’s talent for music grew and she was accepted to the Purcell School before being offered a scholarship to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to study composition. She was also commissioned to write an orchestral piece for the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which was performed at the Royal Festival Hall on April 29, 2007.

Levi wrote and recorded her music throughout her time at school and eventually started playing small gigs and disc jockey sets in the U.K. before making a Myspace site for her songs. She recorded an EP entitled “Filthy Friends” and released it as a free download on the site. With the new generation of blog bands, Micachu quickly began to gather attention from record labels and listeners in the U.K. and U.S.

Levi has claimed to be a strong admirer of pop music and makes just that. In her debut album, “Jewellry” (put out by Rough Trade Records), Levi does to pop what Pollack did to painting. The familiar chord progressions and rhythms usually associated with pop are present, sprinkled with “found sounds” and instruments made by Levi herself.

According to Rough Trade Records’ Web site, Levi uses broken bottles, vacuum cleaners, pots, pans, broomsticks, tweaked instruments (she plays a modified acoustic guitar with a little contraption that applies a larger amount of pressure to the strings, creating a rougher and thicker sound) and an old CD rack that she turned into a bowed instrument, to add her own frayed and glowing patch to the quilt of pop music.

Throw in indistinguishable bleeps, scratches, squeals, squawks, heavy acoustic guitar, a synthesizer that might be broken and pounding drums and shake it all up at a party with some confetti and fireworks and you might get close to what Micachu’s album accomplishes.

Though most of the songs seem most appropriate for a party (“Abandon Ship,” “Golden Phone” and “Floor” shouldn’t disappoint), Levi balances the album out with surprising and provoking lyrics and mellower songs, such as “Turn Me Well.” She starts it off with a vacuum cleaner that plays throughout the song. The vacuum is daunting at first, but Levi pulls off this sound by mixing in her energy-packed voice.

More info on Micachu can be found on the web at micachu.com, along with tour dates, merchandise and songs.

Fans of the White Stripes and Animal Collective should definitely check out Micachu. She just might be the two bands’ illegitimate, 21- year-old.