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American R&B singer Miguel is set to drop his fifth album Caos tomorrow, October 24.
Spanish for ‘chaos’, the long-awaited follow-up since his 2017 project War & Leisure explores existential themes of disorder, rebirth and emotional turbulence. The sound is ‘darker, more aggressive and boundary-pushing’.
In an interview, Miguel explained that Always Time off the new release tackles the concept of loyalty, inspired by the end of his longtime marriage in 2022.
“That song was written because I was uncovering a lot of my values in real time,” Miguel said.
“The word ‘loyal’ is crazy, I saw my grandparents stay together for my entire life, they were loyal to the family, but were they happy? I don’t know.”
He also spoke about Angel’s Song and New Martyrs, which bring alive yearning for a better world.
“It’s really hard when we’re looking at real news, when we can see every day that humanity is being ignored. To be so desensitised to things, it’s hard to know whether or not expressing that humanity matters, but when I come into the studio, I have to remind myself that if it’s felt, then it matters.
“Whether or not everyone needs to hear it, that’s a whole other thing, but to express it, I think, is the whole purpose. That is the beauty of what I get to do, and the blessing that I have of being an artist and having an audience,” he expressed.
Born on born October 23, 1985, Miguel Jontel Pimentel began his musical career at 13. His debut full-length record All I Want Is You (2010) was under-promoted upon its release, however, it eventually became a sleeper hit, as the song Sure Thing off the album garnered success in 2023 after becoming viral on TikTok. It reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 over a decade after its release, becoming his most commercially successful single to date.
