what the fuck
― j. winters (josh), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 03:11 (eight years ago) link
*points to door* OUT
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 03:28 (eight years ago) link
I'm just saying it could be better.
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 03:47 (eight years ago) link
you could be better
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 03:48 (eight years ago) link
luckily there is a remedy, it is this record
― j., Wednesday, 24 June 2015 03:52 (eight years ago) link
i kinda love pitbull but no
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 05:25 (eight years ago) link
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
― 龜, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link
leave pitbull alone
― nose, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
ok whoa @ "leaves"
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
who's got a publicist contact for the man
― alpine static, Thursday, 25 June 2015 22:30 (eight years ago) link
(London tickets on sale as of an hour ago for Brixton Academy in October, by the way...)
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Friday, 26 June 2015 10:04 (eight years ago) link
bonus tracks are great/weird
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
wait there are bonus tracks
― j., Friday, 26 June 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
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"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
wait "destinado a morir" was on the main track listing of the promo before "hollywood dreams" iirc
― lex pretend, Friday, 26 June 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
yeah as a 1:30 interlude.
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
I have to say that a lot of this album sounds like "weird digressive landscapes."
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Friday, 26 June 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link
Not really. Only "The Valley" and "Flesh" get too dense.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 June 2015 17:39 (eight years ago) link
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*?"
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Friday, 26 June 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
("Coffee" very much excepted, of course. Song of the Year so far, for me.)
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Friday, 26 June 2015 17:42 (eight years ago) link
"flesh" is dope imo
― J0rdan S., Friday, 26 June 2015 17:47 (eight years ago) link
wait till you get to the last two songs, crypto
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 June 2015 17:47 (eight years ago) link
"flesh" is sooo good
there are so many *songs* here, consider for instance "waves" and "hollywood dreams"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
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
― j., Friday, 26 June 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link
coffee in the morningcoffee in the morningcoffee in the morningcoffee in the morning
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 June 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link
The second half of "waves" is exhilarating. Paid this dust in the wake of CRJ but am excited to return to it this weekend.
― carly bae jepsen (monotony), Saturday, 27 June 2015 00:35 (eight years ago) link
yes...I...paid this dust...as well...you know me...always paying dust...
― some dude, Saturday, 27 June 2015 00:48 (eight years ago) link
http://lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/first-listen-live-miguel-june-30th-2015/
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 June 2015 05:40 (eight years ago) link
this is the best album ever
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
if you mean the best album made by Miguel since 2013, then sure
― some dude, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 16:54 (eight years ago) link
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
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
ugh http://www.npr.org/event/music/416451780/first-listen-live-watch-miguel-perform-wildheart-in-concert-on-june-30
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 04:33 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 08:10 (eight years ago) link
this is v good
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 13:05 (eight years ago) link
lol finally hearing "1979" in "leaves"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:27 (eight years ago) link
Although I liked the P-Fork review, this constant pairing of Miguel and Frank Ocean is so tiresome.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:31 (eight years ago) link
otm
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Greer, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Greer, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:42 (eight years ago) link
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.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
market positioning
― maura, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
the show last night was incredible, btw.
― maura, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
reading reviews of this record has reminded me of why i dislike references to other artists and albums in music criticism; a lot of times they show off the limitations of the writers' knowledge base when the opposite is probably intended.
― maura, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
i'm gonna need more time with this; first listen or two is not demolishing me. same was true for much of kaleidoscope tho', so maybe it's just exposure. coffee is a likely top ten single tho'.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
^^
Finally, someone else who isn't immediately blown away by this. Only difference is that I seem to remember liking all of Kaleidoscope Dream pretty much instantly.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
bonus tracks are pretty dece! like, easily worthy of inclusion & not all all throwaway like i was half-expecting
cannot stop listening to coffee though
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link
I wasn't blown away by it at first either. Few albums do.
I stopped listening to "Coffee" because if I hadn't it's all I'd be listening to.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 18:46 (eight years ago) link
it doesn't really work for me until "The Valley"; after that it's terrific
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
tbf, i'm spinning between this and several other albums simultaneously; shouldn't opine until i have some focused listening time most likely
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link