Wildheart
Like Prince, André 3000, and Marvin Gaye before him, R&B pinup Miguel treats carnal love as a spiritual journey. His third album is a humid mix of new wave, psychedelia, and electro-pop whose moods flip from tender to funny to gloriously X-rated, often in the same song. Foul-mouthed, yes, but he’s also surprisingly well mannered—the rare male R&B singer who compares his private moments to porn one minute (“the valley”) and offers to bring you coffee the next (“Coffee”).
On Wildheart, Miguel makes good on all of his cross-genre dabbling of the past five years. The album soars with shiny guitar lines and sky-high vocals, while Miguel explores a sex-positive attitude that focuses on pleasure and partnership instead of one-sided pursuit.
On Wildheart, Miguel makes good on all of his cross-genre dabbling of the past five years. The album soars with shiny guitar lines and sky-high vocals, while Miguel explores a sex-positive attitude that focuses on pleasure and partnership instead of one-sided pursuit.
If 2012’s Kaleidoscope Dream, and specifically its smash single “Adorn,” had people thinking Miguel was the latest incarnation of R. Kelly, Wildheart will certainly bring out the Prince comparisons. Wildheart is weirder and more ambitious than its predecessor, an R&B album inflected with bits of prog rock and charged…
If 2012’s Kaleidoscope Dream, and specifically its smash single “Adorn,” had people thinking Miguel was the latest incarnation of R. Kelly, Wildheart will certainly bring out the Prince comparisons. Wildheart is weirder and more ambitious than its predecessor, an R&B album inflected with bits of prog rock and charged…
Wildheart is seeking, sweaty, incense-smelling, intimate, a little too close, and always a few nervous, exciting moments from enlightenment - or maybe just ecstasy.
Wildheart is seeking, sweaty, incense-smelling, intimate, a little too close, and always a few nervous, exciting moments from enlightenment - or maybe just ecstasy.
Wildheart, the thrid LP from 29-year-old neo-R&B artist Miguel, is easily his most ambitious effort to date.
Wildheart, the thrid LP from 29-year-old neo-R&B artist Miguel, is easily his most ambitious effort to date.
We're gonna die young," Miguel intones on opening track "A Beautiful Exit." This nihilistic statement largely informs Wildheart, the L.A. na...
We're gonna die young," Miguel intones on opening track "A Beautiful Exit." This nihilistic statement largely informs Wildheart, the L.A. na...
Miguel’s follow-up to Kaleidoscope Dream is a densely layered mix of psychedelic funk and X-rated jams
Miguel’s follow-up to Kaleidoscope Dream is a densely layered mix of psychedelic funk and X-rated jams
Wildheart communicates the realities of an ever-more-fractured sexual landscape by dancing between extremes of light and dark.
Wildheart communicates the realities of an ever-more-fractured sexual landscape by dancing between extremes of light and dark.
On his third album, the unpindownable psychedelic loverman mixes funk-rock, shoegazing textures and R&B to intriguing and potent effect
On his third album, the unpindownable psychedelic loverman mixes funk-rock, shoegazing textures and R&B to intriguing and potent effect
The singer-songwriter's third album is a full-frontal mission to bring lovesexy back, says Helen Brown
The singer-songwriter's third album is a full-frontal mission to bring lovesexy back, says Helen Brown