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CMU Approved
Approved: The Weeknd – Thursday
By Aly Barchi | Published on Monday 22 August 2011
“He’s one of the greatest artists I’ve ever heard. To hear someone with an incredible body of work is very rare. It’s very inspiring. I’m proud of him. He works real hard. He’s just an incredible person, [and has] become a really close friend to me”. Thus quoth rapper-turned-fanboy Drake on R&B auteur The Weeknd, whose new mixtape ‘Thursday’ came out last… er, well… Thursday.
Canadian singer-songwriter-producer Abel Tesfaye proved a magnet for critical plaudits when ‘House Of Balloons’, the first in a plotted trilogy of Weeknd mixtapes, came out earlier this year. ‘Thursday’ proves a fitting sequel to its acclaimed predecessor, hitting an unnerving note that resonates somewhere between the sublime and the sinister, between Tesfaye’s fevered falsetto and the songs’ pervasively chilly electronica, between an intimate, bedroom-studio production feel and the sheer arc of ambition described by mammoth tracks like ‘The Birds Part 1’, hypnotic Drake-collaboration ‘The Zone’ and ska-tinged closing saga ‘Heaven Or Las Vegas’.
Anyway. Click here to pick up ‘Thursday’ for free.
‘Echoes of Silence’, the final portion of the Weeknd mixtape trilogy, is slated for an autumn release.
