thread of miguel

miguel is so good w/ backing vocals. i could listen to an entire album of his just layering oohs and ahhs w/o even writing actual "songs"

not sure how I'd restrain myself if I watched him record the "ahhhs" in "All"

fuck it, everybody's selfish

Not sure the extra bit of Adorn really makes it a measurably better or worse song, but that's mostly cause it was already great.

Arch N Point also my most played 2012 track thus far.

i dunno if it feels obvious to anyone else but it seems really clear to me that "Adorn" was 3 minutes long to begin with and the first version released was truncated, rather than the ending being added after the fact. the awkward 'ooh ooh' on the original ending actual fits now.

actually

I kinda doubt that. Seems like his label decided they wanted to push it and needed a more conventional structure/length.

hopefully someone will ask him in an interview at some point, i'm genuinely curious

ditto

Not much to add. Art Dealer Chic EPs are the shit. But hey, let's make a pact not to mention Prince for a while, let this breathe.

full version doesn't make me care about "adorn" any more than i did already, no matter how much i listen that song goes in one ear and out the other

"adorn" is my favorite song of the decade after "lemme smang it"

"Adorn" is now the most-listened to song on my last.fm

fwiw the top three most watchec videos of "adorn" on youtube total 5m+ views w/ zero promo

I watch the A&P video at least twice a week lol

is there an official video?

i haven't been able to watch youtubes for about a month on this dying laptop

yeah, "adorn" & "arch & point" have official videos

the "arch & point" one is fantastic

if i can ever stop dithering and buy a new laptop maybe i'll get to see them one day

hopefully

Arch n Point video is almost as sexy as the song.

The Miguel and Jhene Aiko show is one of Myspace's two free secret shows in July, brought to you by the makers of Trojan® Charged™ condoms.

nyc kids, he's playing w/ jamie xx & pearson sound on aug 4

xp I bet Miguel and Jhene are pretty damn good for condom sales

i just thought there was something kind of amazing and perfect about the triangulation of Miguel, MySpace and Trojan

haha word

MySpace is such a harsh connotation, though. I'll forever associate that site with a whole movement of mostly disbanded emo acts I was slightly too old to fully understand

http://www.spin.com/articles/stream-miguels-three-song-kaleidoscope-dream-water-preview

lol at thread of miguel btw

Use Me sounds great.

"use me" is amazing

"don't look back" i'm not so sure about

"use me" is as good as anything he's put out this year imo

both songs are really dense... "use me" really gives off this vibe that he's, like, in the middle of a thunderstorm or something. but in a way that really works.

chorus is killer

serious jaw drop at "use me"

like 2:50 onwards is DDDDDDDDDDD:

where is the CDQ mixtape downloadable from the website???

dunno about anyone else but I love when Miguel belts

I need to stop listening to this off the website, I'm gonna burn out

man, dude packs so much music into just two new song; this is so much to digest. Love how substantial both of these tracks are

minor miracle I was somehow able to get the Spin site to stream these for me. Never has any luck accessing anything on that site before, so glad it came through for me when it counted

"adorn" is slowly rising on the r&b chart too

"use me" is stunning

"don't look back" sounds a bit too much like a ryan tedder collaboration or something but i don't dislike it

so i guess the album has 11 songs, if my math is right? good number imo

I've learned never to underestimate the dude's capacity for writing songs that grow on me. Even fucking "Broads" eventually wormed its way past my "i should hate this" shield

you're a brave man, Evan

his singing on "don't look back" is good tho

how prince is the title "kaleidoscope dream" btw? love it

Stay tuned: On Wednesday morning, August 1, SPIN will also be exclusively premiering a stream of Miguel's performance from an upcoming secret live show.

really excited about this, there's not tons of video of him playing live out there. especially the new stuff, if at all.

Wonder if Miguel is paying incredibly in-depth homage to Smashing Pumpkins by naming his multi-part digital album Kaleidoscope Dream.

lol i was listening to "use me" w/ the door partly closed while my boyfriend was in the kitchen and when i got up and went in there he said he thought it sounded like a smashing pumpkins song