Music Album: Kaleidoscope Dream by Miguel

Miguel is one of the revelations of the r&b genre. His debut album, All I Want You made the impression it needed to cement him as a credible singer and songwriter. After scoring r&b hits with his songs All I Want Is You and Sure Thing, he returns with another collection of edgy r&b cuts that are sure to expand his fan base and solidly enable him to make his mark on the music industry.

Kaleidoscope Dream (originally released as a three-part EP) has already spawned the massive r&b hit, Adorn - a mellow r&b ballad that sounds like one of the 90s classics released in the genre's heyday, though it is sung as a ballad, the production has a certain bounce to it that makes you want to dance to it, it has a refreshing production and musical arrangement that makes it work in the music atmosphere of today. He explores a certain darkness and sexually explicit direction on some of the songs, on Do You - he sings "Do you like drugs., do you like drugs, well me too." and on The P**** Is Mine, he sings about taking ownership of his love interest's private parts. The atmospheric production on songs like The Thrill and the title cut would have you day dreaming and thinking about every word he is singing. The impressive parts of this album lie in Use Me and How Many Drinks? because of how he captures the sound of what contemporary r&b sounds like.

Miguel is here to stay because he continues to grow as an artist and he sings with so much conviction, that you can actually see that he takes his music and artistry seriously. With artists like Miguel and his contemporaries like Elle Varner, The Weeknd and Frank Ocean the r&b genre is definitely deemed to survive.