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His circumstances have thickened his skin: “I got a brand-new place, I think I seen it twice all year,” he sings on the title track. “I’ve been killing these shows/ But I’m always getting high/ ’cause my confidence low,” he sings, almost nervously, on “Love in the Sky,” mindful of the dark churn underneath the glitz.īut maybe Mr. Sometimes his singing devolves into exaggerated talking, and his lyrics move toward the mundane and slurry, but his tone remains unmistakable. Tesfaye multi-tracks his vocals, the agitated and warm and cynical all commingling. Often the songs blend into each other imperceptibly. That ambiguity, the sense of blurry nights bleeding into one another, is echoed in the music, as well. On “Tears in the Rain,” the most epic-scale song here, the chorus sounds triumphant but is really a reveille of misery: “They all feel the same,” he shouts, about the women who plague his nights. Many songs on “Kiss Land” touch on the cheap thrills and unstructured lust of the touring life: “White Russian when the sun hits, white Russians with tongue tricks,” as he nimbly puts it on the title track. Tesfaye’s closest analogue might be Too Short, whose single-minded focus on the prostitute-pimp dynamic made him not only lecherous but also an unlikely sympathizer with those on the receiving end of lechery.
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But whereas, before, he felt like a lone character, now, the movie around him is fleshed out.
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Tesfaye’s preferred mood on this dramatic, darkly pretty but still uncomfortable album full of downer-sex R&B and harsh-sunrise, mildly gothic rock. Listen to some of the best new recordings here.Īsphyxiation is still Mr.
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The three free mixtapes he self-released - “House of Balloons,” “Thursday,” “Echoes of Silence,” later remastered and released commercially as “Trilogy” - were admirably focused and for the most part musically restrained. He was in a constant tug of war between the beauty of a bright new sun and the beauty of decay. Tesfaye released his first songs online, deeply narcotized music that carried the DNA of Terence Trent D’Arby, Prince, Michael Jackson, and also the Smiths and DJ Screw. Tesfaye’s performing alter ego, the Weeknd - is pulpy, mournful, pungent, unnerving.
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Near the end of “Professional,” the opening song on “Kiss Land,” his major-label debut album, he turns directly to the stripper he’s serenading cum psychoanalyzing and asks: “How’d you drain all the soul from your eyes?/How’d you teach, teach yourself how to smile?” He has never sounded more tender.Īn album of scars and calluses, “Kiss Land” (XO/Republic) - released under Mr. For him, all love is vampiric, all women are unworthy of trust, all nights are to be squeezed to the last drop.
He’s got an urgent, high voice that he deploys with nuclear force and focus on songs about the numbing effects of drugs and sex. Abel Tesfaye, heart cold as tundra, sings with intense moral authority about deep immorality.