Michi hands Dirty Talk to Knxwledge and Mndsgn

Dirty Talk: Sunshine Hotline Mixes is a remix album that behaves like a session. Michi's 2025 debut is handed to two Stones Throw label mates and taken apart: four tracks to Knxwledge, two to Mndsgn, plus two covers Michi and Mndsgn made together. Eight tracks. It answers a narrow question well and a wider one only sometimes.

Michi works out of Los Angeles and releases on Stones Throw. Dirty Talk arrived in February 2025, a move away from the pop leanings of her earlier singles and EPs toward something warmer and more soulful. In 2023 she left LA for a small seaside town. That kind of move shows up in a record whether or not anyone says so. The songs here are the same ones, opened up.

The remixers come from inside the house. Knxwledge and Mndsgn are Stones Throw label mates, and the record keeps the concerns Dirty Talk already carried: the ups and downs of love, and nostalgia. It landed July 1, 2026, as a digital album and as a single black LP.

The running order makes an argument as well as a tracklist. The first four songs belong to Knxwledge. 'If You Want Me (Knxwledge RMX)' and 'There's No Heaven (Knxwledge RMX)' are loose and drum-led, with the vocal sitting in the pocket. 'Memmy (Recuerdo) (feat. Gabriel da Rosa) (Knxwledge RMX)' opens out around da Rosa's voice, and 'Snoobie (Knxwledge RMX)' is a sketch that ends before it becomes a song.

Then the covers, which are the best case the album makes for itself. 'Emotions (feat. Mndsgn)' is a Bee Gees song Destiny's Child later made over, and it puts a melody with a history already inside it in Michi's mouth. 'Are You Lonesome? (feat. Mndsgn)' is the deeper dig, a Feminine Complex song most listeners will meet here for the first time. These two are the record's only new recordings, with Mndsgn playing on both.

Mndsgn closes with 'Playing Pretend (Mndsgn RMX)' and a second pass at 'Memmy (Recuerdo)'. That repeat is the most interesting decision on the album: the same song twice, once per producer, the two versions set far apart instead of side by side. It nearly makes an argument, and it takes its time arriving.

Buyers of this record are people who wore out Dirty Talk and want a second angle on it: Stones Throw regulars, followers of Knxwledge and Mndsgn, anyone who picks the black LP up out of habit. It is also a soft entry point, short and easy to play twice. Anyone waiting on a proper follow-up to the debut will not find it here, and no follow-up has been announced.

The flaws are structural. 'Snoobie (Knxwledge RMX)' is a sketch, and it sits fourth, in the stretch where a record needs its strongest material. Keeping all four Knxwledge tracks in a row pushes the covers and Mndsgn's work toward appendix territory and buries the album's one real idea, the two versions of 'Memmy (Recuerdo)' sitting at either end of the middle. And the whole thing is short enough that it never gets to argue with itself.

Three and a half out of five. The songs were already there, and this is a good second look at them, best in its first four tracks and thinner after.

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