Snarky Puppy – Family Dinner, Volume 2 (2016).Sam Cooke – Twistin’ The Night Away (1962/2016).Fats Domino – Live From Austin, TX (2006/2017).Meshell Ndegeocello – Comet, Come To Me (2014).Gene Page – Love Starts After Dark (1980/2015).Ray Charles – The Ray Charles Story, Vol.Stevie Wonder – Innervisions (1973/2000).Miguel – Wildheart (2015) (Deluxe Version).This fourth album offers the perfect balance between mainstream soul and a more underground groove.ġ0. For all that, War & Leisure is noWhat’s Going On but Miguel owed it to himself to work in such a context, even if his music is often synonymous with luxury, evanescence, sex and decadence. Born to a Mexican father and an African-American mother, the man with mixed heritage takes some pot-shots at the Trump presidency, which is silencing those it represents. But the record’s real surprise is without a doubt Miguel’s social engagement. Cole on Come Through And Chill make the whole thing even more tantalising. The appearances by Rick Ross on Criminal, Travis Scott on Sky Walker and J. Sexy too, like on Pineapple Skies for which he has aptly borrowed the melody from Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing. His alloy of soul and soft funk with traces of rock or techno drove the Californian to the sides of Frank Ocean, Prince and even Marvin Gaye… This time round, the Californian is more languorous than ever, for a smoother and more sensual album. With Kaleidoscope Dream in 2012 and above all the grandiose Wildheart of 2015, Miguel Jontel Pimentel alias Miguel broke into the big leagues.
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Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ByStorm Entertainment – RCA Records While the reduction in lucid hooks and the uptick in wince-inducing lyrics diminish the album's appeal, the charms are hard to repel.FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:02 minutes | 552 MB | Genre: R&B child Lenny Kravitz - he could be addressing the city rather than a lover. When he pleads devotion to a "you" in the album's standard-edition finale - which appropriately includes some flame-throwing guitar from L.A.
When Miguel sings of salvation and damnation, of being a pastor and pimp, he could be singing for the city as much as a thrill-seeking protagonist. "Pour your sins on me baby, let us pray" is one of that song's relatively clean lines, one of the album's many instances where spirituality and sexuality are mixed. If there is a "Love Machine" here, it's the porn industry-referencing third track, though it's a dragging slow jam, half-whispered and half-wailed, that is much more graphic.
Like that 1975 album, this revels in L.A.'s allure, the fantasies it fuels, the dreams it breaks. Rather than attempt to rewrite "Adorn," a number one R&B hit awarded a Grammy for Best R&B Song, Miguel evidently saw more of a creative future in the seamier, hazier, reverb-laden Kaleidoscope Dream album cuts like "Use Me" and "The Thrill." Grinding guitars and mechanical beats, played and programmed at sludgy tempos that fuse new wave-era rock and contemporary R&B, dominate a program that curtails Miguel's melodicism in favor of grunts, moans, and a couplet that ends in (groan) "masturbate" and "master, babe." He was inspired by his Los Angeles environment to such an extent that it can be felt in this album almost as much as it can in the Miracles' conceptual City of Angels. A few of the extracurricular moves pointed toward his next solo step, but the clues remained clearest in the darker corners of Kaleidoscope Dream. It would include appearances on a crop of major R&B and rap songs, a cover of Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets," and a highlight turn on Hudson Mohawke's Lantern.
A complete anthology of Miguel's featured appearances released - or disseminated, as the freaky wordplay lover might call it - between Kaleidoscope Dream and this would be assorted, to say the least.
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