R&B innovator Miguel Pimentel is the kind of guy who’ll tell you he feels “vulnerable” even when he sings lyrics like, “I wanna fuck you like we’re filming in the Valley.”

The lyrics are from “The Valley,” the most sexually upfront song on the Grammy winner’s newest album, Wildheart. “I’m your pimp, I’m your pope, I’m your pastor, baby / Confess your sins to me while you masturbate,” he pleads elsewhere on the track, low and soft, inviting you into bed. Before you know it, he’s breaking carnality down to its purest, most primal parts: “I’m talking lips, tits, clit, slit, lips, tits, clit, slit,” he sings.

Sex oozes this way off nearly every track on the album—and from most of its surrounding imagery as well. It’s there in this Wildheart-themed promo image of the singer, eyes closed and jeans ripped at the crotch, daring us to tilt our heads and peek inside.

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