{"id":49999,"date":"2025-10-24T15:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/miguel-caos-review\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:43:17","slug":"miguel-caos-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/miguel-caos-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Miguel ‘Caos’ Review"},"content":{"rendered":"


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On Caos,<\/em> the adventurous R&B artist calls on his heritage as he processes our brutal reality<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n\tThe cover of \u201cRIP,\u201d a recent single off Miguel<\/a>\u2019s fifth album, Caos,<\/em> depicts the Danza de los Diablos,<\/em> or Dance of the Devils, and the album it comes on finds the singer folding allusions to his Mexican roots into a moody, visceral version of his always-ambitious alternative R&B. Miguel kick-started his career with his adventurous 2012 debut, Kaleidoscope Dream,<\/em> an LP that mixed rock, soul, and psychedelia into a freewheeling sound he\u2019s been nuancing ever since, often in music that\u2019s taken on a moodier, more anxious tone. As its title suggests, Caos<\/em> is an album for our times. \u201cLife is cold\/Cold is pain\/And pain, growth,\u201d he says mater-of-factly against a distressed-sounding choir at the LP\u2019s opening.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe album has a political edge that\u2019s previously been present <\/a>in his music. \u201cEl Pleito,\u201d which translates to \u201cthe fight,\u201d is one of several moments when he sings in Spanish, addressing the immigrant experience over subdued guitar and dramatic strings. \u201cGovernment\u2019s playing hunger games,\u201d he sings in a forlorn falsetto on \u201cAngel\u2019s Song,\u201d a meditation on his hopes and worries for his newborn son. Titles like \u201cThe Killing,\u201d \u201cNew Martyrs,\u201d and \u201cTriggered\u201d evoke our current landscape of fear and violence.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe music is fittingly unsettled and often quite dire. \u201cNearsight [SID]\u201d opens with a guitar that sounds like its being played at the bottom of the ocean as Miguel sings about facing up to (and trying to tune out) the challenges and realities of life; \u201cSalvation gets bleaker,\u201d he sings, \u201cso let\u2019s make memories tonight,\u201d before the song explodes into speedy, haried punk rock, as if he\u2019s heading for a cliff. \u201cThe Killing\u201d starts in a Jimi Hendrix acid-rock implosion and turns into a creeping evocation of violent obsession. On the broodingly intense \u201cNew Martyrs,\u201d he plays a gun-toting outlaw (in 2025, the line \u201cI\u2019ll put this mask on my face\u201d evokes ICE raids as much as bank robbing).<\/p>\n

\n\tCaos<\/em> isn\u2019t an easy listen, often fading into a bleary haze and not quite coherently fulfilling the implications of its concept. But coherence isn\u2019t really the point here. This is an album about searching for meaning as you try your best to process a world on fire \u2014 and it\u2019s a mood that should resonate with any honest listener.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n


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