thread of miguel

I took care of you, lex

i seem not to have posted itt after his show last week, it was fucking amazing and he sang "no type" and he plays archetypes so well and with just the right amount of self-awareness and the combination of his highest sweetest falsetto and dirty grimy guitar is something i could listen to forever and "leaves", with the guitar turned up, made me think of "summer of 69", which it hasn't on record

i have so many feels about california, state of, now but i've barely ever even been there

― j., Tuesday, June 23, 2015 1:02 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as the official california correspondent of ILX, i can confirm that WILDHEART represents california very well

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makes me want to rollerskate down venice beach in satin hotpants

i think of WILDHEART as caressing your bae in the backseat of an old convertible while gazing at the stars after aimlessly driving around LA; also psychedelic drugs are involved

Most of these singles on Spotify would benefit from a verse by Pitbull.

ew

what the fuck

*points to door* OUT

I'm just saying it could be better.

you could be better

luckily there is a remedy, it is this record

i kinda love pitbull but no

Most of these singles on Spotify would benefit from a verse by Pitbull.

― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Tuesday, June 23, 2015 10:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

think you mean wale buddy

leave pitbull alone

ok whoa @ "leaves"

who's got a publicist contact for the man

(London tickets on sale as of an hour ago for Brixton Academy in October, by the way...)

bonus tracks are great/weird

wait there are bonus tracks

full length "destinado", "simple things," "gfg" (stands for "good fucking girl" and is mostly a weird digressive landscape), and a great great great song called "damned"

wait "destinado a morir" was on the main track listing of the promo before "hollywood dreams" iirc

yeah as a 1:30 interlude.

I have to say that a lot of this album sounds like "weird digressive landscapes."

Not really. Only "The Valley" and "Flesh" get too dense.

I should add that it is still very early in my relationship with the album (well, obviously), so I'm hoping/expecting it to come into focus for me later, but my initial impression was still kind of, "ok, but where are the *songs*?"

("Coffee" very much excepted, of course. Song of the Year so far, for me.)

"flesh" is dope imo

wait till you get to the last two songs, crypto

"flesh" is sooo good

there are so many *songs* here, consider for instance "waves" and "hollywood dreams"

the songs are masterpieces of deceptively casual understatement and pacing, i've only had this 5 days and i've already played it like 20 times

coffee in the morning
coffee in the morning
coffee in the morning
coffee in the morning

The second half of "waves" is exhilarating. Paid this dust in the wake of CRJ but am excited to return to it this weekend.

yes...I...paid this dust...as well...you know me...always paying dust...

http://lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/first-listen-live-miguel-june-30th-2015/

this is the best album ever

if you mean the best album made by Miguel since 2013, then sure

lol when i'm listening to it it feels like the best thing in the world, so much depth and color

i tentatively think it's better than kaleidoscope dream

Only on my first play and some of it sounds a bit laboured in the way that Kaleidoscope Dream never did, but Hollywood Dreams and NWA really stood out.

Haha okay I just got to the second half of Leaves and I *really* wasn't expecting it to turn into 1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins.

ugh http://www.npr.org/event/music/416451780/first-listen-live-watch-miguel-perform-wildheart-in-concert-on-june-30

Flesh really reminds me of parts of the last Beyonce album, it's a so-so piece of songwriting but consistently engaging because of the *performance*, particularly Miguel's willingness to explore as many facets of his voice as possible (fragile falsetto, lascivious growl, full-throated Marvin swoop, stadium rock holler, overlapping clouds of mini-Migs). It's astonishing.

this is v good

lol finally hearing "1979" in "leaves"

Although I liked the P-Fork review, this constant pairing of Miguel and Frank Ocean is so tiresome.

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Maybe I'm just being really uncharitable in my reading of that review, but to me it came off as "Miguel's high-concept experimenting is here to save us from all that loathsome R&B" in some places.

A good review though otherwise. I particularly enjoyed the explanation of what makes Miguel's sexual come-ons seem so much less gross/more tolerable than his counterparts.

It's true that Migs mitigates his aggression with a gosh-darn cuteness, but I don't get how this review and Caramanica's the other day assert that the "divide" in Miguel's "soul" is any different from Usher, MJ, Marvin Gaye, or whatever.

market positioning

the show last night was incredible, btw.