Many of Wildheart’s songs begin with a simple, masculine riff and then Miguel’s voice, each touched with enough reverb to make them a little scruffy but never enough to obscure their melodies. The rest of the production on Wildheart is warm and spacious in a way that allows each element to shine through. Wildheart has nothing as smooth as Kaleidoscope Dream’s hits “Adorn” or “”How Many Drinks?” but it is still music made for the bedroom or maybe driving while you daydream about the bedroom. Wildheart doesn’t quite reach Kaleidoscope Dream perfection. “What’s Normal Anyway” is a self-pitying autobiographical lament about not fitting in that is simultaneously too specific to be relatable and too on the nose to be affecting and it hurts the listening experience a little that the greatest highlights (“Coffee,” “NWA,” and “Hollywood Dreams,” all from the EP, the bonus track “Simple Things” that was originally heard on the HBO show Girls) have all been released in other forms for a while now. The album is all of one piece, the product of a clear artistic vision, even when Miguel strays a bit from the formula.
“Waves” is an uptempo near-disco sex jam built around frenetic drums. Miguel’s collaboration with Los Angeles rapper Kurupt on “N.W.A.” is dark, subdued, menacing LA funk buoyed by satisfyingly booming drums that knock like nothing else on the album. Still, Miguel pulls Kurupt, a formidable artistic force in his own right, into his musical orbit and it’s telling that the only other guest included is Lenny Kravitz, who, in his own time, made the sounds of the 70s work in contemporary pop. Miguel writes nothing but memorable melodies and his songwriting is the engine that makes Wildheart all work, that takes his affinity for funk, psychedelia and Prince, and turns them an album that feels totally of the moment.
Those influences could overwhelm a lesser artist or pull him into the trap of corny tastefulness that afflicts so many retro soul acts, but Miguel has such a strong voice that he makes them all work in service of his personal vision. Miguel is seeking, sweaty, incense-smelling, intimate, a little too close, always a few nervous, exciting moments from enlightenment or maybe just ecstasy, or as Miguel sings on “Simple Things, “a free spirit with a wild heart. Save on Every Order! Save on Every Order!Īt, we have the piano sheet music you’re searching for.From the latest radio hits to opera and Broadway classics and through Disney essentials, we have hundreds of thousands of professional, officially licensed digital sheet music arrangements, all available for immediate digital download.
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