This is sounding more ambitious, a bit like the openers on Kiss Land - lots of bombastic bass hits and ominous synths and requiem vocals. In a year when the biggest stars of yesteryear and today all decided to drop albums with varying levels of fanfare, the man who the New York Times profiled. The title of the song aims low lyrically, and nothing really stands out in a simple lamentation on loss of love. Sounds a bit like a radio-friendly offcut from Echoes of Silence.įatigue starting to set in now (this is why I tend to listen to albums in chunks) but this is another assured bit of songwriting, the chorus getting a Diplo-esque pitch-shifted echo. This record is definitely going to shift a ton of copies/clock a ton of streams. This album was released in November of 25th of 2016. Featuring artists Lana Del Rey, Kendrick Lamar, Daft Punk and Future. Selling an equivalent of 348,000 in the sales, this album is a solid listen, through and through.

More understated than some of the other tracks and all the better for it.ĭavid Carradine gets a name check, if the 80s cinematic touchstones weren’t clear enough, in another track with a pretty traditional verse-bridge-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus structure and catchy, easy to compute chorus. Third studio album by famous Canadian musician, The Weeknd, was a remarkle album with incredible hits. This is one of the first songs I’ll be revisiting, it has a velveteen quality and immediately fingers your spine.

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