It's one of the most gorgeous pop songs so far this decade, deceptively simple and alluringly confident.ĭo You… is another warm-hearted highlight, opening with the line "Do you like drugs?" before later switching playfully to, "Do you like hugs?". His biggest American hit to date, Adorn, opens, popping with electric melodies and charm. Kaleidoscope Dream continues that improvement, highlighting an artist in a real purple patch of songwriting. Those tracks were rough and sometimes pretty off-the-cuff but despite an occasional sense of incompleteness, they still ranked as an exciting step up from Miguel's 2010 debut, All I Want Is You. The record is his fourth release for the year, tying together the loose ends of a trilogy of EPs titled Art Dealer Chic Volumes 1-3. But Kaleidoscope Dream makes a compelling case for him to sit comfortably alongside those aforementioned artists. From Frank Ocean's star-making channel ORANGE, a return to yearning for The xx and the continuing rise of The Weeknd: the big stories have revolved around interesting mutations of the genre.īy comparison, straighter-laced RnB singer Miguel has flown under the radar a little. It's difficult to argue against 2012 being the year of RnB.
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