okay cats and kittens, it looks like this is going to be a double-post evening but this is an emergency and cannot wait.
i was as skeptical as anybody about the weeknd - it seemed he was about to be snapped up by the drake/lil wayne production team and mashed into whatever godless machine took drake's initial appeal and transmogrified into that mess called thank me later. but this week's free release, entitled thursday, is just as good if not better than house of balloons - it's dark and sexy and faded in all the right ways. everybody's pretty excited about life of the party, and with the club-worthy guitars i suppose i can see why, but the zone is by far my pick of the litter; abel's voice works so well when it's layered over such a devastatingly distorted acoustic sample, and just when you thought he was about to be swallowed alive by his own ego, drake does the track justice with a surprisingly understated verse. pick this one up fo' free as soon as you can.
the weeknd - the zone
the weeknd - rolling stone
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