Abel Tesfaye revisits his usual theme of nihilistic love and his beloved palette of 80s synths, but it’s melodically solid and there are some tweaks to the formula
, it carried a certain sense of finality. A grand concept album filled with both starry and august special guests – Jim Carrey, Quincy Jones, Beach Boy Bruce Johnston – and intimations of death, apocalypse and the afterlife, it was accompanied by interviews in which Abel Tesfaye talked if not of retiring, then of retiring the Weeknd, the sleazy, troubled persona he’s inhabited since the release of his debut mixtape. He wanted, he said, “to remove the Weeknd from the world”.
The themes of death and apocalypse are once more much in evidence. “Traffic dies while we are racing home / Melted lights cover the open road”, opens Dancing in the Flames, its lyrics reminiscent of celebrated songs in a similar vein.
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