thread of miguel

this is great yall trippin

― Spottie, Friday, August 25, 2017 3:59 PM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I still love it.

sky walker owns

i've come all the way around on "sky walker", i think it's a really fun song. the video sells it well too.

― J0rdan S., Friday, October 27, 2017 12:39 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i like it a lot now

"told you so" is giving me art dealer chic flashbacks *_*

New album out December 1 titled War & Leisure

“told you so” is fuckin incredible

yeah!

woo!

agreed, this is his first great track in a minute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnhlTS8RgUM

f/w this

sounds like MGMT Electric Feel.

love that song

same. this is good but i like the other one better

this rules. it took a bit but I like Sky Walker now too. Shockandawe is still bad but doesn't seem to be on the album thankfully?

Damn his voice is supple

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/miguel-on-politics-adelanto-new-album-war-and-leisure-w509919

For Miguel, participating in the October 20th press conference and concert (the #SchoolsNotPrisons concert at the Adelanto Stadium baseball field) is part of a personal, slowly evolving engagement with the political moment, inspired by such musical heroes as Prince, Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder. "They all cared. It's a human thing," says Miguel. "They all pushed the boundaries in their own way. They all challenged us to look at things a different way. I saw that from the artists I love, and I decided I want to do that. To be an artist is to deal with what's happening in your time."

His upcoming fourth album, War & Leisure, is still overwhelmingly upbeat and concerned with the personal and romantic, but it also contains "Now," a questioning socially conscious ballad in the spirit of Lauryn Hill and Sam Cooke. Accompanied by layers of guitar and heavenly, electronic sounds, Miguel sings:

"CEO of the free world now/Build your walls up high and wide ... /Should we teach our children hatred?/Chase the innocent and shoot them down? ... /Is that the look of freedom, now?/Is that the sound of freedom?"
Last November, at age 31, the Grammy-winning soul artist voted in his first presidential election. "Politics, I didn't have a personal interest," Miguel admits. "I didn't really care. What is my one vote? That was my attitude."

He liked President Obama, but didn't feel drawn to the political process until last year's rise of Sen. Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primaries. "Watching him made me interested," said Miguel. "It was also our peers, our conversations, and seeing people really get behind him who shared similar values." Even after Sanders lost the nomination, Miguel stayed engaged through the general election.

After voting, he spent election night with his fiancée at an arcade and played air hockey as the TVs slowly revealed the results, state by state. "The shit started rolling in," remembers Miguel, who tried to stay positive until the results were clear. "With the election going in a direction way unexpected, I couldn't take my eyes off it. I couldn't not pay attention now."

Thanks.

For part of the drive, he listens to the latest mixes of War & Leisure, due out December 1st, and finds more to tinker with.

I guess its done, now? That was October 20th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKwAib6LosM

this is the best one yet, so gorgeous

I love the bass.

This could've been on the last album.

yeah this is one of my favorites although i have a lot of them

yoooooooo

"pineapple skies" and "told you so" have gotten me pretty excited for the album... could shape up to be better than wildheart for me :)

Yeah, this is so dope. Previewed on Snoop's youtube channel iirc

damn this is electrifying, maybe better than anything on Wildheart. I'd basically written him off after all his garbage singles this year; feels good to be reminded why I used to adore this guy

Told You So and Pineapple Skies are both so awesome that I feel bad that I doubted him. I'm still waiting for Skywalker to click.

Yeah I wouldn't hold me breath for that. I dunno if the tracklist has been released, but I'm still holding out hope Skywalker doesn't make the cut. Can't imagine how any album could work around that dog pile.

"sky walker" is on it. also you're wrong

"sky walker" is my least favorite among what's widely available so far but i can stomach it now, i accept it and don't feel it will be terribly out of place. honestly i'm just glad ~the marketplace~ is still allowing him to get hits even if they're not going to be the best work he's capable of.

another new song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjm81OPZbpU

the fuck is he still doing with J. Cole

His second verse is shameful but I don't mind Cole on tracks like this. There's something so anonymous and nondescript about his rapping that his verses feel like an unintentional throwback to the NJS days, before guest raps went to big names or artists with visions and personalities. Back then it always used to sound like the rap came from, like, a backup dancer or friend of the producer who just happened to raise his hand and volunteer to lend the track some color. Cole raps about on par with one of those guys.

miguel continuing to align himself with corny rappers, you don't say

reminds me of seeing janet last week and having to suffer through the cole verse on "no sleeep" being needlessly piped through the soundsystem

was pleasantly surprised when his voice popped up during the song on the closing credits of Coco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7VPdpEV1m0

Natalia Lafourcade's Musas is lovely as well

aw! xp

Damn, Come Thru 2.0 wasted an opportunity to re-title it "Netflix and Chill."

Tour announced. I haven't seen him since Kaleidoscope Dream. Does he still do the rock band thing or has he toned that down?

The last time I saw Miguel was last year when he opened for Sia; he performed in front of a bunch of screens with musicians behind him. Not sure if that was because of stage-setup constraints or what.

I do know that his longtime guitarist Dru Decaro is currently touring with Vic Mensa - I saw him open for Jay-Z the other night. What a show, and Dru was crucial to its over-the-top intensity. What that means for next year is anyone's guess.

Did anyone go to the Brooklyn show last night?

He definitely did the full band thing when I saw him touring Wildheart.

Oh yeah he did when I saw the Wildheart tour (like six times) too. But the Sia shows were I believe at the end of that cycle.

"pineapple skies" is such a good song, jeez. even better in sequence

having spent a little time with the record, i think it's essentially a hybrid of the last two, v bright and shimmery but also occasionally (especially toward the end) submerged and guitar-driven. i think it's as good as anything he's ever done. "now" is especially gorgeous

one also has to ignore the guests for the most part (in retrospect it's a miracle that the only guest verse on wildheart is kurupt)

"sky walker" also has an awesome new coda

The album is indeed fantastic. I enjoyed Skywalker a lot more than I've ever done. The coda definitely helps, but hearing it without watching the video did it a lot of favours too.

"banana clip" is so good

i wish "harem" was much longer than it is

not sure this is quite as good as the last two but still very good

when the beat comes in on now!

i love that part in “now,” it always makes me want to restart the album