thread of miguel

There are small, scattered moments on Mischief where everything clicks and its like, "oh right, I love this guy." I've gotten a ton of writing done to that mixtape over the last couple of years; it's good background music that still kind of jams

I just still can't believe that he did the hooks on that Blu & Exile album from back in 2007.

saying "gravity" is the best thing off these tapes is clinically insane

you are underrating "gravity", which is amazing, but i don't think anyone said that

yeah i misread you

i'd still rate them as adorn > ...all > arch n point > gravity

the thick bassline + the harmonies on the "shoo-di-doo da-di-da da-di-da-dah" chorus >>>>>>

'broads' is cute enough, what's the big problem

haven't heard his very earliest stuff but at least on all i want is you there was a clear pharrell/nerd vibe going and 'broads' is just some more of that writ a little too large. can't pretend it's not there though

i'd even argue you can make a case for still being able to hear trace elements of it in the new good widescreen stuff too really, but then i guess your imagination would need to stretch to what a decent latter-era nerd song would sound like

in any case it's true what rev says about miguel's elision of "any air of tribute or homage" whoever he may happen to sound like - a very nice trick to have

'broads' is cute enough, what's the big problem

agree with this.

don't really hear the pharrell/nerd thing at all tho

Broads is pretty catchy and all. I just don't see myself listening to it again

the thick bassline + the harmonies on the "shoo-di-doo da-di-da da-di-da-dah" chorus >>>>>>

― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:09 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark

was also thinking he has this really great way with harmonies that beautifully tie kinda meandering or seemingly disparate or just idk unresolved songs together - 'gravity', 'adorn' and 'sure thing' only truly become sure things once it happens

think i already said this last year but from 2:25 on 'girls like you' is nerd chapter & verse no question at least - and that's no huge leap from 'broads' really. the more intuitive stuff from then on i'm not gonna harp on about tho cos it's not like i really want to think of him in pharrellian terms that much either - just saying it's a strand in the dna is all

yeah, his way with harmony is n/l

i'll get back to you about "girls like you"

there is TOTALLY a pharrell vibe and i never thought i'd say that about an R&B singer i wasn't trying to insult

no thoughts on this yet but glad r|t|c is back missed ur posts bro http://i.imgur.com/gDeUg.gif

yeah web boo

er, wb

lol

http://i.imgur.com/Rlj7m.gif

"yeah web boo" cracking me up so much

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"...all" is the standout track imo

relistened to "Girls Like You" and i still dgi. Miguel as a singer sounds effortless, whereas Pharrell, even at his best, sounds labored, and his backing tracks are very loose, whereas the Neptures were always about hyperprecision. Even their more ramshackle moments sound pointedly so, like they made absolutely sure that bongo was just exactly that much offbeat.

you're overthinking it

I just don't hear it at all!

not even on a superficial level

you're listening hard to the singing and the production style when we're referring more broadly to the overall vibe. the 'beautiful girls, intelligent girls, i hate ya' part definitely could've come out of a nerd song.

ok ok, i gotcha now

saying "gravity" is the best thing off these tapes is clinically insane

"gravity" is the best thing off these tapes. it's all about the overlapping shoo-be-doos and ba-ba-bas at the end. i also prefer vol 2 to vol 1, "...all" is stunning.

just don't get what you all see in "adorn", i can never remember a single thing about it after it ends.

gravity > ...all > arch & point >>>>>>>>> adorn > that i do > broads

i can never remember a single thing about it after it ends.

Funny, this is how I feel about Gravity.

Adorn > ...ALL > Arch N Point >>>>>>>>> Gravity > That I Do > Broads

(erhm... so there!)

But I like everything on these tapes, really. They're great on the whole!

oh man every time i listen to volume 1 i'm like "i love 'that i do' so much"

It speaks to the quality of these EPs that there's no consensus whatsoever on which tracks are the best.

And as much as I'm enjoying receiving these songs in drops, I can't wait to glue them together into a nine-song album.

"Broads" is horrible. Only dud thus far.

i can never remember a single thing about it after it ends.

this is how I feel about all the songs I love best, like you can't remember a thing except that you really like it so you play the song again.. I remember having this same feeling about 'umbrella'

"adorn"'s main charm is its warm, woozy atmosphere and miguel's meandering falsetto; more than a song built almost entirely around hooks like "umbrella" i can understand how it'd be "forgettable" after a first listen, even if that's not necessarily a point against it

have described "adorn" to other people as "sexual healing pt. 2"

don't know how accurate that is but there's something in the ease of the delivery, in the airiness of the backing track

"adorn"'s main charm is its warm, woozy atmosphere and miguel's meandering falsetto; more than a song built almost entirely around hooks like "umbrella" i can understand how it'd be "forgettable" after a first listen, even if that's not necessarily a point against it

― recent thug (k3vin k.), Thursday, 29 March 2012 21:53 (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

i think that's true of every ep song except 'adorn' - yeah it seems like it's got the rarefied atmosphere but that monster 808 bass over the shuffling vox sample drives that frailness on and on, the awesome pure monolith of choral harmony proves his devotion with complete certainty. and the absolute confidence in just the sheer brevity of it! very different to, very similar to, on a par with, and about as forgettable as 'promise' imho. the dude fucking nailed it

by which i mean not remotely forgettable obv

(seriously my ipod headphones were broken for like a week after it came out and i literally CRAVED to hear it all day til i got back home)

I listened to "Adorn" about 30 times in a row when it dropped and I never do that.

I just listened to it like 5 right now

http://vimeo.com/39375791

'adorn' is full of hooks btw

'gravity' is my least fav track I think. not a fan of 'dirty basslines' in general

did not like 'all i want is you' that much either

also his new scruffy facial hair look is ... nagl

nagl haaawt

ha I prefer futuristic space streamlined miguel

'adorn' is full of hooks btw

― dayo, Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:32 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah sure but they're kind of purposefully obscured, that was my point

great, revelatory rtc post as usual