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Kaleidoscope Dream is the second studio album by American R&B recording artist Miguel, released on September 25, 2012, by RCA Records. After attaining commercial standing with his 2010 debut album All I Want Is You, Miguel wanted to play a larger creative role in his music and principally produced and wrote Kaleidoscope Dream. He recorded most of the album at Platinum Sound Recording Studios in New York City and MJP Studios in Los Angeles, and worked with producers Warren "Oak" Felder, Jerry "Wonda" Duplessis, and Salaam Remi, among others.

An idiosyncratic album, Kaleidoscope Dream featured sparse production, eccentric details, and hazy, reverbed sounds. Its music incorporates R&B, pop, funk, rock, and soul styles, as well as electronic flourishes, psychedelic textures, and funk rock guitar. Lyrically, the album generally discusses sexual and romantic themes, with existential subject matter on some songs. Miguel titled Kaleidoscope Dream as a metaphor for life and sought to represent his own lifestlye and personality with its music and lyrics.

Prior to its release, the album's songs were previewed virally through a series of free digital EPs released by Miguel. It was subsequently promoted with two singles, including Miguel's highest charting single "Adorn", and his touring throughout North America and Europe during 2012 to 2013. Upon its release, Kaleidoscope Dream received rave reviews from music critics, who praised its eccentric R&B style and Miguel's singing and songwriting. It debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200, selling 71,000 copies in its first week. As of October 24, 2012, the album has sold 123,400 copies in the United States.

Background

After having it shelved by Jive Records for two years, Miguel released his debut album All I Want Is You in November 2010.[2] It initially performed poorly and was underpromoted by Jive,[2] amid the label's dissolution.[3] However, as its singles attained radio airplay and Miguel toured in its promotion,[4] the album became a sleeper hit and helped him garner an audience and commercial standing.[2][5] In 2011, Miguel collaborated with rapper Wale on the latter's single "Lotus Flower Bomb", which attained extended airplay on urban radio into 2012.[6]

After Jive was shut down and absorbed by RCA Records, Miguel acquired a new marketing team to develop himself as more than a "typical R&B artist".[4] With Kaleidoscope Dream, he sought to reintroduce himself artistically,[4] and was inspired by his "more alternative" musical influences.[7] In an interview for Billboard, Miguel said that he intended to "change urban radio" and "the sound of what's expected from R&B songs on the radio".[4] He explained the album's title as "a metaphor for our life; everyone has their own Kaleidoscope Dream, it is the life that they project and it is the life that they are solidifying with their conscious decision and their subconscious feelings."[8] He also said that the album represents the fantasies that are conveyed through dreams, which he felt embody "the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious ... the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative."[9]

Writing and recording

Miguel worked on the album for approximately three months.[10] He sought to play a larger creative role than he had on All I Want Is You,[8] and produced most of Kaleidoscope Dream and either wrote or co-wrote every song on the album.[6] He said of his creative role on the album in an interview for Stereogum, "It was really important that I was very much involved in creating the sound, pulling in the textures, pulling in the colors. Painting honestly and trying to be as concise and true to what it was I was getting in my head."[11] He recorded most of the album at Platinum Sound Recording Studios in New York City and MJP Studios in Los Angeles; the songs "Arch & Point" and "Gravity" were recorded at Gustavo's Golden Gloves Gymnasium in Los Angeles.[12] Parts of the album were edited by Miguel and his engineers using Pro Tools.[12]

Miguel wanted the album to be "a pure and honest projection of my lifestyle and my kaleidoscope dream", and used the music's pace and sound to represent his lifestyle and his lyrics to represent his personality.[11] To sustain his creative approach, Miguel avoided media outlets that he usually visited for music, including radio and Internet blogs.[11] He drew on musical influences from early in his life, including classic rock, country rock, and funk, to incorporate rock flourishes on the album.[11] He also incorporated the Roland TR-808 to give the music a distinct percussive feel.[11] He enlisted an orchestra and incorporated string arrangements, along with a drum loop, to the album's title track, which he felt aurally defined the moods of his personality.[13] Miguel also worked with previous collaborators Salaam Remi and Nathan "Happy" Perez, among other producers.[6] Recording artist Alicia Keys sung background vocals on the song "Where's the Fun in Forever", and Brook D'Leau of J*Davey played keyboards on "Candles in the Sun".[6]

Apart from sexual themes, Miguel wrote about conversational and existential topics.[11] When writing "Pussy Is Mine", he drew on his sexual behavior a single man and "moments of power and vulnerability" with a sexually active woman.[13] Miguel originally wrote "Where's the Fun in Forever" with Alicia Keys for her 2012 album Girl on Fire at a recording studio in Jamaica.[14] He conceived the song while spending time with Keys on the roof of the studio, which he recounted in an interview for MTV News, "I had was this amazing blanket of stars in the sky and the sound of waves in the distance, great vibe ... So here I am trying to be creative for Alicia and it just dawned on me: Well, what if we did live forever? Could we have accomplished all of these amazing things? Would we have come so far? ... Would we have come up with all these theories or built all of these amazing, amazing architectural beautiful things ... or would we have been lazy?"[13]

Composition

The album's title works: on Kaleidoscope Dream images and sounds repeat, refract and coalesce ... 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. Early days and misadventures. It's soul-baring, but mirrored and fairly guarded.

— Frannie Kelley, NPR[1]

An idiosyncratic album,[15] Kaleidoscope Dream features sparse production,[16] eccentric details,[17] and hazy, reverbed sounds.[18] Allmusic's Andy Kellman finds the album's songs to be "funkier and weirder" than All I Want Is You and observes an "illusory atmosphere ... intensified by some unexpected touches".[6] Stylistically, its music is characterized by electronic flourishes,[19] psychedelic textures, funk rock guitar,[2] and synthesized keyboards.[20] As an R&B album, Kaleidoscope Dream deviates from genre conventions by minimizing the influence of hip hop,[2] and drawing heavily on psychedelic rock and pop elements similarly to Around the World in a Day-era Prince.[20] Evan Rytlewski of The A.V. Club views that the album is "a pop record first and foremost" that has an "amiable internal logic".[2] Alex Macpherson of The Guardian perceives a "headier aesthetic" on Kaleidoscope Dream than on its predecessor, with the music incorporating "faded psychedelia" and "intimate experiments in Purple Rain-esque rock",[21] while Grantland editor Sean Fennessey finds the album comparable to Prince's 1983 song "Darling Nikki".[22] Music journalist Maura Johnston comments that "much of Kaleidoscope Dream sounds, as the title might suggest, fractal."[18]

The album's lyrics generally deal with themes of sex and romance.[2][18] Andrew Ryce of Pitchfork Media interprets the album's "overarching theme" to be "the highly sexualized seen through the lens of the eager and innocent."[23] Miguel's lyrics express modest sentiments, candor,[3][23] and cheeky humor.[1] Frannie Kelley of NPR likens Miguel's songwriting to Tony! Toni! Toné!, while noting "Little Richard-level insinuations" and "absurd provocations in the style of Akinyele".[1] Consequence of Sound's Jeremy D. Larson writes that Miguel employs a "fangs-out approach to R&B" similar to Frank Ocean and The Weeknd, writing that "nothing shrouds Miguel and his directives, and worries, and prayers, and cat calls — it's all there, full of light and love, refracting through a kaleidoscope of rocks glasses, rainy windshields, and blood-shot eyes."[16] Music journalist Jim DeRogatis finds Miguel "man enough to admit his own insecurities and question whether he’s worthy of love—or lustful indulgence", interpreting that on songs such as "Pussy Is Mine" and "How Many Drinks?", he "isn't bragging but either wishing for what he doubts he’ll ever achieve or hoping he has what it takes to do so."[20] Miguel sings with an expressive falsetto and tenor voice on the album.[16][19] Alfred Soto of The Quietus observes a "joy" expressed by Miguel's singing that "leavens the often brooding nature" of the music.[24]

Content

"Adorn" has both digital and analog sensibilities,[6] and features on-beat sub-bass sounds,[16] falsetto howls,[6] irregular vocal echoes, obscured synths,[18] and minimal keyboard arrangements.[3] Its lyrics comprise brazen declarations of affection,[6] including promises of adoration to a female subject,[25] and are complemented by Miguel's vocal runs and ululation during the song's coda.[18] Writers liken "Adorn" to Marvin Gaye's 1982 ballad "Sexual Healing".[6][18][3] The futuristic "Don't Look Back" has amplified bass,[3] bombastic drums, urgent vocals,[18] and grand synthesizer riffs.[23] Rob Markman of MTV News writes that the song "represents the morning after when the reality of the previous night's efforts creep in."[26] Its closing interlude features Miguel crooning lyrics from The Zombies' 1969 song "Time of the Season" over sentimental synth sounds and musky,[6] psychedelic music.[23] "Use Me" features hollow, electronic sounds,[25] heavily multitracked vocals, metronomic rhythms,[24] and an industrialized mix of guitar and percussion.[3] The song's narrator instructs his romantic partner how she can toy with him,[18] with lyrics that blur expressions of sexual nerves and aggression.[21]

The euphoric,[23] pop rock song "Do You..." contains walking bass, gentle guitar strumming, double-time drumming,[27] arrayed falsetto vocals,[18] and heavy reverb.[2] Its lyrics suggest a narcotic tryst and mix ambiable come-ons with drug imagery.[21][18] Miguel sings humorous, romantic lyrics on the song with a playful delivery: "What about matinee movies / Pointless secrets / Midnight summer swim, private beaches / Rock, paper, scissors / Wait! best outta three!"[23] The psychedelic title track incorporates synthesizer arpeggios, minor chords,[27] oscillating blips, fuzzy guitar,[28] and a bassline interpolation of Labi Siffre's 1975 "I Got The".[6] The sample's groove is played at a different tempo than other instruments on the song.[2] The song's lyrics feature synesthetic imagery ("I taste you, infinite colors"),[27] and the narrator boasting about kissing his subject's third eye.[28] "The Thrill" has a sparse bass groove, layered vocals and keyboards,[17] a slow tempo, and existential lyrics with YOLO imagery.[18] "How Many Drinks?" has sardonic,[23] swaggering lyrics and a rap verse by Miguel,[18] whose character veers between seducer and user: "I've got money, but I don't want to waste my time".[17]

"Where's the Fun in Forever" features atmospheric drum and bass,[6] stark piano chords,[27] an a cappella bridge,[22] and a call-and-response chorus.[18] Its lyrics celebrate youthful bliss and preach a carpe diem philosophy.[22][21] It transitions into the rock song "Arch & Point", which has lascivious lyrics,[27] sexually-charged ballet metaphors,[22] bare power pop elements,[6] plopping percussion, and an acoustic guitar coda.[17] The low-key "Pussy Is Mine" features a high vocal range by Miguel and a rudimentary chord progression played on electric guitar.[24] It has a stripped, demo recording quality.[27] The song is about a vulnerable lover's desire to be a promiscuous woman's sole partner.[8] Its sexually explicit, bawdy lyrics eschew masculine hip hop tropes for feelings of insecurity.[17] The song is bookended by background studio chatter.[29] "Candles in the Sun" is a slow burning,[27] political soul song,[30] with lyrics that address senseless killings and drug-infested communities,[31] and question the existence of God and the motives of governments.[32] Chris Kelly of FACT writes that, along with "Adorn", "Candles in the Sun" "bookend[s] the album with another tribute to Marvin Gaye, a la 'What's Going On?'"[27]

Promotion

Miguel marketed the album virally with a three-volume series of EPs entitled Art Dealer Chic,[33] which were released as free downloads during February to April 2012 and previewed songs from the album.[6] He released two more EPs—Kaleidoscope Dream: Water Preview on July 31 and Kaleidoscope Dream: Air Preview on September 11—[34] to digital retailers.[4] In an interview for The Village Voice, Miguel felt that the strategy allowed listeners to absorb the songs at his desired pace and called it "a great way for me to reconnect with my peers ... the people that I hang out with—that go to the same shows, listen to the same music, read the same blogs, same magazines."[33] Kaleidoscope Dream was first released by RCA in vinyl LP format on September 25 to make the deadline for the Grammy Awards' eligibility period without charting prematurely on lower sales.[35]

The album's lead single "Adorn" was released on August 7.[36] It became Miguel's second number-one single on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs,[6] and was also his highest charting single in the United States, peaking at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100.[37] By September, the single had sold 190,000 copies.[4] "Do You..." will be released as the second single.[4] It reached number 49 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.[38] Its music video was released on October 3 and featured tableaus of the Great Basin Desert and black-and-white shots of Miguel with his girlfriend Nazanin Mandi.[39] A video for "The Thrill" was also released on October 4.[40] Filmed in black and white with fast cut editing and montage shots,[40] the video depicted Miguel and his friends at a birthday party for Mandi.[7]

Miguel embarked on a short promotional tour in the United States on September 26.[4] He also promoted the album with television performances on 106 & Park, The Wendy Williams Show, Late Show with David Letterman, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!.[41] He will continue touring in support of the album for six months throughout North American and Europe,[4] including dates as a supporting act on Trey Songz' Chapter V World Tour during November 2012 to February 2013.[42]

Reception

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[6]
The A.V. ClubA–[2]
Chicago Tribune[17]
Consequence of Sound[16]
The Guardian[21]
Pitchfork Media8.4/10[23]
PopMatters8/10[3]
The Quietusfavorable[24]
Rolling Stone[25]
Spin9/10[18]

Kaleidoscope Dream received rave reviews from contemporary music critics.[43] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 86, which indicates "universal acclaim", based on 14 reviews.[44] Allmusic editor Andy Kellman cited it as "2012's most pleasurable pop-R&B album" and commented that, although the lyrics occasionally come "too close to 'artsy' teenage erotic poetry," each song has "an attractive quality, whether it's a heavenly melody, a riveting rhythm, or a boggling production nuance."[6] Alex Macpherson of The Guardian wrote that Miguel's occasional "appeal to indie tropes ... is balanced by genuinely thoughtful songwriting" and commended him for using his previous commercial breakthrough "as a springboard to radically change course".[21] Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune complimented both his "left turns" and references to older influences, writing that Miguel "creates a fluid, dreamscape environment that floats across eras with a connoisseur's discerning feel for the telling detail."[17]

Rob Tannenbaum of Rolling Stone commented that "Miguel proves that he is, easily, uninhibited enough to inherit the tradition of eccentric R&B freakiness handed down from Marvin Gaye to Prince to R. Kelly."[25] Evan Rytlewski of The A.V. Club drew comparisons to Prince, particularly his "pop instincts", and stated, "Few, if any, of [Miguel's] contemporaries have demonstrated this much control over their aesthetic."[2] Maura Johnston of Spin praised Miguel's "command" of his "impeccable songwriting chops" and "deceptively supple voice", and called the album "startling and invigorating, a fully formed statement from an artist hungrily surging toward the front of pop music's creative pack."[18] Sean McCarthy of PopMatters called it a "thrilling listen" and viewed that, along with Frank Ocean's Channel Orange, it "shows that in terms of mainstream music, the trailblazers of 2012 are firmly entrenched in the R&B community."[3]

In a mixed review, Ken Capobianco of The Boston Globe felt that "some tracks are simply overproduced" and found Miguel "too remote for a true soul singer."[19] Frannie Kelley of NPR critiqued that the album "requires a few twists to bring Miguel's vision into focus", but commended his effort as a "perfectionist" and found him comparable to "Stevie Wonder, Prince and Van Morrison."[1] Pitchfork Media's Andrew Ryce found the album to be "respectful of tradition, quietly ambitious, and deeply personal", and cited Miguel as "the rare vocalist who makes you feel what he's singing about, even when his lyrics can be transparent."[23] Alfred Soto of The Quietus was pleasantly suprised by "the range of sonic ideas, fully realized songs, and prodigious vocal talent" by Miguel after a "tentative" debut and commented that he "articulates how a love man can be louche without being a douche."[24]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200, selling 71,000 copies in its first week.[45] It sold 30,000 copies in its second week on the chart.[46] As of October 24, 2012, Kaleidoscope Dream has sold 123,400 copies in the United States.[47] In the United Kingdom, the album charted for three weeks on the UK R&B Chart,[48] on which it peaked at number 13.[49]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Adorn"Miguel PimentelMiguel3:13
2."Don't Look Back"Nathan Perez, Miguel PimentelHappy Perez, Miguel4:26
3."Use Me"Warren Felder, Ronnie James, Steve Mostyn, Miguel Pimentel, Nycole Russell, Elle Varner, Andrew WanselAndrew "Pop" Wansel, Miguel (co.), Steve "Ace" Mostyn (co.), Warren "Oak" Felder4:40
4."Do You..."Arden Altino, Jerry Duplessis, Paul Pesco, Miguel PimentelArden "Keyz" Altino (co.), Jerry "Wonda" Duplessis, Miguel (co.)3:28
5."Kaleidoscope Dream"Miguel Pimentel, Salaam Remi, Labi SiffreMiguel (co.), Salaam Remi4:17
6."The Thrill"Allen Arthur, Keith Justice, Miguel Pimentel, Glayton ReillyMiguel, Phatboiz3:04
7."How Many Drinks?"Miguel Pimentel, Salaam Remi, Roger Nichols, Paul WilliamsSalaam Remi4:32
8."Where's the Fun in Forever"Felder, Alicia Keys, Mostyn, Miguel Pimentel, WanselAndrew "Pop" Wansel, Steve "Ace" Mostyn (co.), Warren "Oak" Felder3:29
9."Arch & Point"Miguel Pimentel, Mac Robinson, Brian WarfieldFisticuffs3:17
10."Pussy Is Mine"Miguel PimentelMiguel2:53
11."Candles in the Sun"Miguel PimentelMiguel4:55
Total length:42:11
UK bonus tracks[50]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
12."Gravity"Pimentel, Robinson, WarfieldFisticuffs, Miguel3:39
13."...All"PimentalMiguel3:59
14."Adorn (Remix)" (featuring Wiz Khalifa)Pimentel, Cameron ThomazMiguel3:47
Notes[12]

Personnel

Credits for Kaleidoscope Dream adapted from liner notes.[12]

Charts

Chart (2012) Peak
position
UK R&B Albums[49] 13
US Billboard 200[51] 3
US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[51] 1

Release history

Region Date Label Format
United States[52] September 25, 2012 RCA Records LP
United Kingdom[53] September 28, 2012 ByStorm Entertainment, RCA digital download
Canada[54][55] October 2, 2012 digital download, CD
US[56][57]
UK[58] November 12, 2012 Sony Music Entertainment CD

See also

References

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