Name: War and Leisure
Brand: Miguel

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

88985497242

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Explicit content.

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-12-01

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Sony

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

889854972424

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Miguel

Genre US

R&B / Neo-Soul

Label US

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War &amp; Leisure, Miguel’s newest, is the most languorous, expansive thing he’s ever made. The instruments blur into one another in ways that they never have, and the mathematical clarity of his songwriting doesn’t jump out the way it once did. Miguel’s last two albums, 2012’s Kaleidoscope Dream and 2015’s Wildheart, both pushed in that direction, but they both had sharp and immediate burners that became radio hits (“Adorn” on Kaleidoscope Dream, “Coffee” on Wildheart). War &amp; Leisure doesn’t have anything like that. The Travis Scott collab “Sky Walker” has done OK on the charts, but it’s as dizzy as anything else on the album, and Scott’s presence only serves to make it sound looser and druggier. The Miguel/Travis Scott combination isn’t an obvious one, but it works a lot better than either of the album’s other two big rap features, Rick Ross on “Criminal” and J. Cole on “Come Through And Chill.” Neither Ross nor Cole fits comfortably into the slipstream of what Miguel does, though both of them try to get on his level. And both of them clumsily reference Colin Kaepernick. Cole’s second verse on “Come Through” is especially ridiculous: “Girl, you on my mind like Kaepernick kneeling / Or police killing / Or Trump saying slick shit / Manipulating poor white people because they ignorant.”

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