

Coming off of two 1 R&B singles and a near gold debut on his break thru album All I Want Is You, Miguel is poised for continued success. More than a third of the songs here are powered by guitar and on most of them the narrator is telling the listener what to do. Grammy nominated singer/songwriter releases his highly anticipated sophomore album Kaleidoscope Dream. "Can I trust you?" On "Candles in the Wind" he loses the reins a bit, asking after God, quoting Biggie Smalls and indulging in more runs than usual over a sparser beat. /rebates/&252fmiguel-kaleidoscope-dream-album-download. On "Use Me" he relies on an amped-up shaker to push through a case of the nerves. Miguel creeps up behind the note sometimes, but he usually ends up squarely on top of it.

The title track samples Labi Siffre's immortal " I Got The," recognizable from Eminem's " My Name Is." The lead vocal runs back and forth over the bass line like it's a game of Red Rover. Grammy nominated singer/songwriter releases his highly anticipated sophomore album Kaleidoscope Dream. It's soul-baring, but mirrored and fairly guarded. Kaleidoscope Dream LyricistSalaam Remi/Labi Siffre/Miguel Pimentel ComposerSalaam Remi/Labi Siffre/Miguel Pimentel ArrangerSalaamremi. It's made up of love songs, but they are more specifically songs arguing for love, acting casual, wishing and hoping and then imagining what it would be like to consummate. This is an album about re-ordering the past, directing the present.

But they change places less like the do-si-do and more like the Charleston. The album's title works: on Kaleidoscope Dream images and sounds repeat, refract and coalesce.
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Miguel's second full length album, which has been released piece by piece over the summer, sounds like the Los Angeles-born singer took a hard look at R&B, pop, rock, funk and " club-aware electronic soul," gleefully smashed those plates and glued them all together. Audio for this feature is no longer available.
