The weeknd new album 20136/5/2023 ![]() Tesfaye’s performing alter ego, the Weeknd - is pulpy, mournful, pungent, unnerving. 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.
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